How Tuition is Used

Tuition and state appropriations combine to pay for the core operational costs of The University of Texas at Austin, one of the world’s great research universities. Tuition plays an integral part in the university’s mission by helping it hire more faculty to maintain reasonable class sizes, retain faculty and support staff through merit pay increases and expand existing academic programs and initiate new ones.

Tuition…

• Provides revenue to improve the student-faculty ratio
• Supports merit pay increases for faculty and staff
• Funds requested student services and college and school initiatives
• Provides need-based financial assistance to cover increased tuition costs
• Offsets rising utilities’ costs
• Partially funds reconstruction of the Experimental Sciences Building, which is functioning at 50-percent capacity for safety reasons
• Helps pay for expected record-breaking natural gas prices

View the University Budget Summary for 2007-08 [PowerPoint].