Yukon College tuition fees to rise
Full year of credit courses will increase by an average of $60
CBC News
Posted: Feb 6, 2013 4:14 PM CST
Last Updated: Feb 6, 2013 4:59 PM CST
Yukon College’s board of governors has approved a tuition increase of just under two per cent.
The price of a course credit will rise to $110 from $108. A full year of credit courses will increase by an average of $60. Those increases go into effect this September.
The cost to apply to programs at the college will also increase to $50 from $20, effective March 1.
“The cost of delivering education is not going down,” said Colleen Wirth, director of Student Services. “So essentially we’re looking at the reasonable cost of the increase of the basic delivery of services, our technology, what we call our hard costs of the infrastructure at the college.”
Yukon College revenue for the 2011-2012 year totalled $38 million. Three per cent of that — $1.2 million — came from tuition and registration fees.
The majority of the college’s funding comes from the Yukon government and third party contracts.
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