UTSA Tuition

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UTSA Tuition Fee Proposal

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What is the Tuition Fee Proposal?
Process for requesting increases to deregulated
tuition and mandatory fee rates for Board of
Regents approval Faculty and student committee
reviews proposed rates for two-year period,
resulting in a recommendation to the President
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General Principles Set by UT System

• Increases to undergraduates must be tied to a
  specific detailed plan for improving 4 Year
  graduation rates
• Increases for graduate students must be
  cost-justified

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Proposal Assumptions

• Consultative
• Open and transparent
• Comprehensive
• Strategic
• Frugal

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Success Factor 1Student Academic Preparedness

• Academic skills
• Developmental education

Proposed New Costs Jump Start Program
45,000 Math Boot Camp 20,000 Total
65,000 All other
initiatives will be funded with existing resources
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Success Factor 2Curriculum Structure Course
Delivery

• Proposed new costs FY13 FY14
• Instructional Technology Specialists 162,000
• 40 New Faculty 906,069
  2,854,000
• Enhanced Summer Schedule
  875,000 125,000
• TOTAL 1,884,500
  2,950,000

All other initiatives will be funded with
existing resources above amounts include benefit
costs.
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Success Factor 3ADVISING ACADEMIC SUPPORT
SERVICES

• Proposed new costs FY13 FY14
• University College
  138,000 46,000
• Early Alert System
  43,000
• Revamp Advising Services
• (presentation to follow)
  1,700,000
• TOTAL 1, 881,000
  46,000

All other initiatives will be funded with
existing resources.
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Success Factor 4POLICIES INCENTIVES

• Proposed new costs FY13 FY14
• Incentive Grants
  500,000 500,000
• Finish in Four Program
  365,000 547,500
• TOTAL 865,000
  1,047,500

All other initiatives will be funded with
existing resources.
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Proposal to Consolidate and Revise Advising Fee

• UTSA students pay 8 different Advising fee rates
• Freshmen Undeclared 102
• College of Business
  95
• College of Engineering
  91
• College of Public Policy
  90
• College of Education Human Dvlpmt 87
• College of Liberal Fine Arts
  83
• College of Sciences
  82
• College of Architecture
  80

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Advising Fee rates do not match costs
College Fee Rate Cost per Student Subsidy
Freshmen 102 105 3
Undeclared (TRC) 102 131 29
COB 95 111 16
COE 91 144 53
COPP 90 184 94
COEHD 87 146 59
COLFA 83 112 29
COS 82 103 21
COA 80 78 -2
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Total FY11 Revenue vs. Expense
College Fee Revenue Total Fee Usage Subsidy
Freshmen Advising 965,605 991,168 25,563
Undeclared Tomás Rivera Center 417,786 538,118 120,332
COB 914,174 1,069,402 155,228
COE 327,497 517,287 189,790
COPP 162,750 332,645 169,895
COEHD 627,399 1,049,350 421,951
COLFA 972,467 1,307,782 335,315
COS 617,598 779,513 161,915
COA 163,902 160,110 lt3,792gt
TOTAL 5,020,024 6,745,374 1,576,197
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Total FY11 Expenditures by Area
College Expenditures Transfers Total Fee Usage
Freshmen Advising 906,625 84,543 991,168
Undeclared Tomás Rivera Center 390,615 147,503 538,118
COB 822,765 246,637 1,069,402
COE 412,332 104,955 517,287
COPP 269,508 63,137 332,645
COEHD 710,423 338,927 1,049,350
COLFA 819,327 488,455 1,307,782
COS 568,044 211,469 779,513
COA 120,386 39,724 160,110
TOTAL 5,020,024 1,786,051 6,745,374
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Other Services Paid from Advising fee

• University Health Professions Office
  179,340
• Honors Program Advising 201,263
• Testing Center 248,795
• Downtown Advising Center
  432,867
• Undergraduate Studies
  533,908
• International Student Advising 189,878
• TOTAL 1,786,051

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Proposal to Increase Advising Fee Rate Charge
UG Students the Same Amount

• Advising fee was last increased Summer 2006
• Cost analyses to justify fee rates are no longer
  valid services are subsidized with EG budget
• Goal to bring Student to Advisor Ratio to 3001
  (currently at 3201)

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Proposal to Increase Advising Fee Rate Charge
UG Students the Same Amount

• In addition to cost containment measures, new
  funding is required to
• eliminate the EG subsidy
• implement the following GRIP Solutions
• Create a career ladder for advisors
• Add new advisors
• Net estimated requirements 1,700,000

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Proposal to Increase Advising Fee Rate and to
Charge all Students the Same

• Creating one fee and one rate will
• Provide flexibility for Academic Affairs to
  strategically allocate funding for critical needs
  and service demands to address the requirements
  that result from Education Code Section 61.077
• The THECB is required to establish the method of
  assessment no later than September 1, 2012, to
• establish a method for assessing the quality and
  effectiveness of academic advising services that
  includes student surveys, and
• identify objective, quantifiable measures for
  determining the quality and effectiveness of
  academic advising services.

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Proposal to Increase Advising Fee Rate and to
Charge all Students the Same

• Creating one fee and one rate will
• Simplify the fee structure
• New fee rate - 120 per student

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Proposed New Advising Fee Rate
College Current Fee Rate FY11 Cost per Student Proposed New Fee Rate
Freshmen 102 105 120
Undeclared 102 131 120
COB 95 111 120
COE 91 144 120
COPP 90 184 120
COEHD 87 146 120
COLFA 83 112 120
COS 82 103 120
COA 80 78 120
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Proposal to reduce the Energy Fee Rate

• The Energy fee was initiated Fall 2006 at 45 per
  student / semester
• Fee rate reduced in
• Fall 2007 by lt10gt to 35
• Fall 2010 by lt6.50gt to 28.50

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Proposal to reduce the Energy Fee Rate

• Propose fee be lowered to 23 or lt5.50gt a 19.3
  reduction
• In FY11, Energy fee revenue covered 20 of total
  EG utility costs
• This reduction will lower that cost sharing to
  15

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Athletics Fee
Background

• A student referendum in September 2009 endorsed
  an increase in the Athletic fee and support for
  the addition of football.

UTSA students have spoken, and this vote
endorses their dream to take the athletics
program at the University to the next level,
said Gage Paine, UTSAs vice president for
student affairs.
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Athletics Fee
Background

• Revenue from fee rate increases to a maximum of
  240 per semester (20 per SCH) were incorporated
  into the financial pro-forma approved by the UT
  Board of Regents to add football.

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Athletics Fee
Background

• Rate History

SCH 2007 2008 2008 2009 2009 2010 2010 2011 2011 2012 2012 2013 2013 2014
1 10 11 13 15 17 19 20
12 120 132 156 180 204 228 240

Proposed increases included in the revenue
assumptions of the Athletics proforma approved by
the Board of Regents
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Graduate Education Costs

• The cost of graduate education is higher than
  undergraduate programs
• Smaller class sizes
• Higher faculty costs (fewer NTT)
• Student assistantships
• Research orientation

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Graduate Education Costs

• On average, costs are 4Xs higher than
  undergraduate (based on 2010 Cost Study data
  submitted to THECB)
• Doctoral programs cost 2.5Xs more than graduate
  programs and 10Xs more than undergraduate

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Graduate Education Costs
UG UG GR GR Total Total
SCH /SCH SCH /SCH SCH /SCH
SCH 623,121   58,844   681,965  

Cost Faculty Salaries 39,632,840 64 27,681,003 470 67,313,843 99
Cost Departmental Operations 76,197,948 122 11,913,235 202 88,111,183 129
Cost Academic Support 26,158,119 42 17,478,049 297 43,636,168 64
Cost Total 141,988,907 228 57,072,287 970 199,061,194 292
Faculty Salaries do not include TAs Faculty Salaries do not include TAs Faculty Salaries do not include TAs Data Source UTSA FY 2010 THECB Cost Study Data Source UTSA FY 2010 THECB Cost Study Data Source UTSA FY 2010 THECB Cost Study Data Source UTSA FY 2010 THECB Cost Study

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Other UT institutions with differential Graduate
Tuition Rates

• UT Arlington charges 38.22 more per SCH with a
  differential designated tuition rate
• UT Dallas has flat rate tuition that is 167 more
  per SCH for graduate students
• UT Pan American charges 4.70 more per SCH for
  designated graduate tuition
• UT Tyler charges 67 more per SCH for Graduate
  students and 111 more per SCH for Doctoral

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Proposal to Create a Differential Graduate
Designated Tuition Rate

• If approved, graduate students will pay 7.25 per
  SCH more
• than the UG designated tuition rate in FY13, and
  12.75
• more per SCH in FY14 (in addition to 50/SCH GIT
  statutory
• tuition)
• Total per semester increase of 355 (FY13) and
  348 (FY14)
• for a full time equivalent graduate student
  taking 24 SCH per
• year.

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New Revenue would allow funding enhancements
towards our goal of increasing Graduate programs
Base Budget Enhancement FY 13 FY 14 Total
12-15 FTE Faculty Benefits 575,931 765,000 1,340,931
Graduate Scholarly Activity 200,000 0 200,000
Financial Aid Set Asides 127,563 125,364 252,927
Total 903,494 890,364 1,793,858
Preliminary revenue estimates based on FY12
budgeted SCH
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Review of Proposed Total Academic
CostsUndergraduate Students

• Undergraduate Resident TAC Refer to Handout
• Based on 15 SCH
• Proposed UG Resident TF Cost Increase
• 3.1 in FY13 (Annual Increase for 30 SCH 277)
• 2.9 in FY14 (Annual Increase for 30 SCH 264)

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Review of Proposed Total Academic CostsGraduate
Students

• Graduate Resident TAC Refer to Handout
• Based on 12 SCH
• Proposed UG Resident TF Cost Increase
• 3.9 in FY13 (Annual Increase for 24 SCH 355)
• 3.7 in FY14 (Annual Increase for 24 SCH 348)