Purdue to hold public hearing for tuition and fees proposal

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University will conduct a public hearing June 2 on proposed tuition and fees to be paid by students attending the university’s main campus (West Lafayette/Indianapolis), Purdue Fort Wayne or Purdue Northwest during the 2025-26 and 2026-27 academic years.

The proposal calls for the following:

Main Campus

• No base tuition increase in 2025-26 or 2026-27.
• Effective in 2025-26
  • For international students, an increase to the international student fees.
• Effective in 2026-27
  • For undergraduate non-resident and international students enrolling for the first time in fall 2026 or after, an increase to the engineering, computer science/data science/artificial intelligence and Mitch Daniels School of Business differential fees. Indiana residents, graduate students and all students enrolled prior to fall 2026 will not be impacted by this change.

Fort Wayne and Northwest Campuses

• No base tuition increase for Indiana residents in 2025-26 or 2026-27.
• 3% per-year tuition increase for non-resident and international students.

On the main campus, differential fee changes will be used to offset increased costs in programs that require specialized technology, equipment, facilities and/or have unique professional accreditation requirements that are changing. Additional details are available here.

The increases at the Fort Wayne and Northwest campuses will be used to fund the operating budget, including faculty and staff salaries and benefits, scholarships, supplies, services, and repair and rehabilitation.

The public hearing will begin at 10 a.m. ET (9 a.m. CT) in Stewart Center, Room 326, at the West Lafayette location. For those wishing to view the hearing, click on this recording link.

The public will have a chance to comment in person during the meeting. Those wishing to speak should notify the Office of the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer by May 29 at 765-494-9705 or evpt@purdue.edu. Each speaker will be scheduled in the order they register and allotted three minutes to make comments. Written comments also may be submitted via email or sent to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, Hovde Hall, 610 Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, IN 47907.

Anyone wanting to offer testimony at one of the statewide campuses should contact that campus for directions to the videoconference location. Those locations are:

• Purdue Fort Wayne: Science Building, Room 176
• Purdue Northwest — Hammond Campus: Lawshe Hall, Room 131
• Purdue Northwest — Westville Campus: Dworkin Student Services and Activities Complex (DSAC), Room 1113

Trustees will review comments from the hearing and vote on the tuition and fee proposal at the board’s next stated meeting June 6.

About Purdue University

Purdue University is a public research university leading with excellence at scale. Ranked among top 10 public universities in the United States, Purdue discovers, disseminates and deploys knowledge with a quality and at a scale second to none. More than 107,000 students study at Purdue across multiple campuses, locations and modalities, including more than 58,000 at our main campus in West Lafayette and Indianapolis. Committed to affordability and accessibility, Purdue’s main campus has frozen tuition 14 years in a row. See how Purdue never stops in the persistent pursuit of the next giant leap — including its comprehensive urban expansion, the Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue Computes and the One Health initiative — at https://www.purdue.edu/president/strategic-initiatives.