Tuition increases 3.9% for next year

LILY TAYLOR JUNIOR NEWS EDITOR

The University announced that undergraduate tuition will increase by $2,330 (3.9 percent) for the 2023–2024 academic year, Feb. 1. This increase marks the highest annual tuition hike since the 2011–2012 academic year.

Provost Beverly Wendland emailed undergraduate students to announce the decision. The email included a copy of the letter sent to students’ families, which breaks down the comprehensive increase.

The health and wellness fee will be $616, compared to $576 for the 2022–2023 academic year, and the

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Ved Patel Managing Chief of Copy copy@studlife.com student activity fee will be $616, compared to $594 for this year. Meal plan prices will range from $5,018 to $7,590, compared to $4,824 to $6,702 for the 2022–2023 academic year. Fees for a double room will range from $12,648 to $13,188, compared to $12,178 to $12,698 for this year.

The 2023–2024 tuition hike follows a steady increase in tuition over the last few decades, including an increase in tuition by 2.9% from 2021–2022 to this academic year.

In Wendland’s letter to families, she emphasized the fact that tuition and other fees help support “course offerings and majors, mental health and

Washington University’s School of Medicine is no longer submitting data used for national medical schools rankings to U.S. News & World Report (USNWR).

The decision comes after the past month where multiple prominent medical schools including Harvard, Stanford, and Duke, announced they would stop submitting data to the ranking.

The listing, which ranks schools by quality, student success, and research activity, has recently come under criticism. Harvard Medical School Dean George Daley said the ranking creates “perverse incentives” for institutions to report misleading data.

Dean David Perlmutter

released a statement on Jan. 26 stating the medical school will no longer continue to submit data to USNWR, citing issues with the medical school’s holistic philosophy of education and how it interacts with the rankings.

“Commercialized rankings have not kept up with these transformations,” Perlmutter wrote. “They recognize the values and aspirations of the past, not the skills and tools that will carry us into the future.”

Joseph Krambs, a member of the Committee of Medical Student Education (COMSE,) said the rankings are primarily used for business rather than educational value, and that education itself is not necessarily a priority to the ranking.

“I sort of see it as a marketing and fundraising tool for institutions, because it's not really limited to medical schools, or undergraduate institutions,” Krambs said. “It's also applied to hospitals and other businesses…20 percent of [the ranking data] comes from the GPA and MCAT scores. It doesn't really say anything about preparedness or medical training or the medical profession, other than to say that people who come into this institution are good test takers.”

Krambs also said that because WashU as an

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Neither Wendland nor the University’s Office for Marketing and Communications responded directly to a question from Student Life on what, specifically, the tuition increase will go towards. They also did not respond to a request to see a breakdown of how tuition dollars are spent.

Tuition will also increase for graduate school, parttime, and evening students, with increases ranging from 2 percent to 3.9 percent.

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