Wyoming Community College Tuition Rate Not Increasing For 2024-25 School Year

Tuition rates at all eight of Wyoming’s Community Colleges will remain unchanged for the 2024-25 school year.

The Wyoming Community College Commission held its fall quarterly meeting at Sheridan College to discuss the tuition issue among other things.

The fall meeting in odd numbered years is the normal time of year for the tuition topic.

The current tuition rate that was set in 2020, is $105 per credit hour for in-state students, $158 per hour credit for students from the surrounding states, and $315 per credit hour for all other non-Wyoming students.

Megan Goetz is the chairwoman of the Wyoming Community College Commission.

She says taking into account such factors as inflation, and some are still trying to recover financially from the covid pandemic, and a nationwide decline in enrollment, raising tuition costs was not in the best interest of the colleges.

“In Wyoming we have a constitutional provision that says ‘make post-secondary education as accessible and affordable, as close to free as possible.’ So it made sense based on the recommendations and all of the analysis and data we are given that now is not the time to increase and create another barrier for students. It’s the time to maintain it at its existing rate.”

When the commission sets tuition rates, one of the guiding principles used is that a college’s tuition revenue, be equivalent to 18 to 22-percent of total college operating revenue.