Trustees set tuition rates for 2008-09

The Stanford University Board of Trustees today announced 2008-09 rates for tuition, room and board.

Total undergraduate fees will increase 3.5 percent to $47,212, compared with $45,608 in the current academic year. Tuition will increase from $34,800 to $36,030; room and board will increase from $10,808 to $11,182.

The trustees also set tuition rates for graduate students.

General graduate student tuition will rise 3.5 percent, from $34,800 this academic year to $36,030 in 2008-09. Tuition for Law School students will increase 3.5 percent, from $39,500 to $40,880. Tuition for students in the Graduate Division in Engineering also will increase 3.5 percent, from $37,110 to $38,400.

At the Graduate School of Business, tuition for entering MBA students will rise 6.5 percent, from $45,921 to $48,921. Second-year MBA students will pay $45,921, the same amount they paid this academic year, under a new structure in which MBA students pay the same rate during each of their two years of study. (Students enrolled in PhD programs at the Business School pay the same rate as general graduate students.)

Tuition for students in the School of Medicine increased 4.25 percent, from $41,620 this year to $43,389 in 2008-09.

Tuition for terminal graduate registration will remain $11,040 in 2008-09. The tuition rate for graduate students taking 8 to 10 units will rise 3.2 percent, from $22,710 to $23,430.

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