RALEIGH (February 27, 2025) – For the ninth straight year, the UNC Board of Governors voted today to hold tuition constant at all 16 UNC System universities.
For in-state students.
North Carolina’s state constitution includes a provision that says, “The General Assembly shall provide that the benefits of The University of North Carolina and other public institutions of higher education, as far as practicable, be extended to the people of the State free of expense.”1
That constitutional mandate has kept tuition relatively low for in-state students.
For out-of-state students, though, it’s a different story. Systemwide, the increases for out-of-state students at most campuses will range from $200 at N.C. A&T to $1,279 at UNC Wilmington.
At UNC Chapel Hill, out-of-state undergraduate tuition will jump 10%, by $3,924, to $43,152, and a total of $44,950 in tuition and fees. Out-of-state candidates for a Master of Business Administration at Carolina will face tuition of $70,908.2
HOLSHOUSER AWARD
The Gov. James E. Holshouser for Excellence in Public Service goes each year to a faculty member who exemplifies the University’s commitment to service and community engagement.
This year it went to Dr. Angela Lamson, a professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Science at East Carolina University. Lamson helped develop the world’s first medical family therapy doctoral program, which provides behavioral and mental health services in primary care settings.
Through a partnership with Contentnea Health, she has trained 165 students and enabled 126,000 patient visits for uninsured or underinsured people in Eastern North Carolina. ECU has been recognized for efforts to address suicide in rural families.
“Our students save lives every day,” she told the Board. She added that in 20 years of work with Contentnea Health, she is not aware of a single suicide of one of its patients.
Lamson also received a Department of Defense grant to study physical, behavioral and social health among service members and their families.
“Dr. Lamson is the embodiment of the engaged faculty member,” said Hans. “She has put her extensive scholarship into real-world practice to improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians, while inspiring a generation of students to embrace public service.”
MYFUTURENC
Board member John Fraley, who also chairs the myFuture NC board that oversees the state’s work toward a goal of 2 million people ages 25-44 with a high-quality credential or degree by 2030, told the Board that when the goal was adopted in 2019, North Carolina was 400,000 degrees short of it.
“Half-way through this work, we are now 55,000 short, which is a major-league improvement,” Fraley said.
He described efforts to simplify financial aid and college credits, and added that college attainment is essential to building the state’s workforce.
“If North Carolina is going to remain a top state for business in the United States, this work is critical,” he said.
1 https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Constitution/NCConstitution.html, Article IX, Sec. 9.
2 https://www.northcarolina.edu/apps/bog/doc.php?id=68340&code=bog, .pdf pp. 10, 13, 43.
James H North Jr says
Fees are ridiculous and need to be abolished. In some cases that are as much as tuition. You can pat yourself on the back and say tuition is unchanged, but the fees usually go up.