Stupid Cheap Wyoming

"UW Resident Undergraduate Tuition Will Not Increase for 2009-10 Academic Year"

Jan. 23, 2009 -- The tuition costs for resident undergraduate students at the University of Wyoming will not change for the third consecutive year.

In approving tuition rates today (Friday) for the 2009-10 academic year, the UW Board of Trustees voted increases of about 5 percent for non-resident undergraduates, resident and non-resident graduate students and law and pharmacy students but did not alter the resident undergraduate cost of $2,820 per year.

...
Still, UW's resident undergraduate tuition and fees are the lowest among the 25 institutions in the Western Undergraduate Exchange program. The average UW student paid $3,621 for tuition and fees for the 2008-09 academic year, $824 less than Utah State University, the No. 24 school on the list.

UW's resident undergraduate tuition will remain at $94 per credit hour for the 2009-10 academic year.

Non-resident undergraduate students will see an increase of 4.98 percent for 2009-10, with the hourly rate jumping from $341 to $358 for a total annual cost of $10,740."

Wyoming has some of the most money in the state, in fact I read an article talking about how hard economic times hasn't really hit Wyoming yet. Well, instead of putting the burden of costs onto students, why don't they use some of their ungodly reserves? I hope they better increase scholarships and what not too. It's only a little over ten dollars, right? What about this year when the student government also voted for an 80% increase of their budget which students have to pay for.

I wish Wyoming didn't spend so much money on decorated all their lightpoles with stupid rocks, tearing up Prexy's to make a stupid rock sitting area. The courtyard with in the Fine Arts building is useless---especially it's very expensive fountain that is only turned on like twice a year. What's more, residence get better scholarships. I understand that this is a public university and that they should be looking out for their residence who paid taxes for the school, but still, as an institution they should want to encourage diversification of students. I went to another public school and they were much more eager to have students from other states come to their school---and they had MUCH less money than Wyoming.

Ugg.