GA Board Of Regents Freezes Tuition, Fees For 2021-22 School Year

GEORGIA — Tuition and fees for the 2021-22 school year are frozen at their current levels at all 26 colleges and universities within the University System of Georgia, the Georgia Board of Regents voted Tuesday.

This is the second consecutive year the board voted to freeze tuition and fees, in part due to the financial hardships students and parents face because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The board voted last April to not raise tuition during the initial economic instability at the start of the pandemic last year.

University System officials also noted this is only the fourth time in six years the board has voted to approve a recommendation of no tuition increase for any student across the system.

The fall 2021 semester tuition at Georgia State University, which has the most students of any school in the USG, will be $4,474 for full-time, in-state students and $13,993 for out-of-state students, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The fall 2021 semester tuition at the University of Georgia, Georgia's flagship university, will be $4,895 for full-time, in-state students, and $14,415 for out-of-state students.

“USG over the past several years has remained committed to making public higher education as affordable as possible for students and their families, while maintaining results that rank our campuses among some of the best in the nation,” USG Chancellor Steve Wrigley said in a statement. “We are grateful for the support of the Board and state leaders toward this priority, and recognize students’ hard work especially over the past year to maintain success toward graduating and entering Georgia’s workforce with college degrees.”

Metro Atlanta schools affected by this vote include Georgia Tech; the universities of Georgia, North Georgia and West Georgia; Atlanta Metropolitan State College; Georgia Gwinnett College; and Clayton State, Georgia State and Kennesaw State universities.

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