Emporia State University continues to attack and lower the high cost of education by putting forth a net decrease in Tuition + Fees for its students.
“It’s not right to keep passing costs on to students and families through continuous increases to tuition and fees,” said ESU President Ken Hush. “In alignment with KBOR’s ‘Affordability’ strategic pillar, we are attacking the cost of higher education through ESU’s first-ever transformative restructuring. Uniquely, ESU is immediately passing cost savings gained through efficiencies and incremental funding secured as a result of transformational efforts over the past two and half years back to students and families.”
During the 2024 Kansas legislative session, Emporia State received additional funding which included paying off the debt for the 2010 renovation of ESU’s student center the Memorial Union. Retiring the debt will now save undergraduate and graduate students an annual $250 and $350 respectively in student fees.
Today (Thursday, June 20), the Kansas Board of Regents approved Emporia State’s proposed tuition and fees for the 2024-25 academic year.
“We believe as a state agency it is our fiduciary responsibility to continue to analyze our overall university enterprise, eliminate waste and take resulting action to create efficiencies that keep costs down for students, families and for the state of Kansas,” said Hush. “Further, we are grateful to our partners and their ongoing support including the City of Emporia, Lyon County, ESU Foundation, all Kansas legislators and leadership, generous alumni and donors and various foundations.”
Decreasing tuition and fees for 2024-25 is the most recent in a series of moves ESU has launched to lower costs for students and their families:
- New + Enhanced Scholarships. Thanks to partnerships with ESU Foundation and the Jones Foundation, we can provide exciting new scholarships to students.
- Enhanced Presidential Merit Scholarships.
- $1,000 – Legacy Student Scholarships.
- $1,000 – Residential Living.
- $1,000 – Honors College.
- $1,000 – Science + Math Education Majors.
- $2,000 – Choir, String / Orchestra, Marching Hornets, Cheer, Dance, Color Guard.
- $1,200 – Varsity Esports student-athletes.
- $7,000 – Jones Success total potential over four years for Lyon, Coffey + Osage county students.
- $63 College Courses for Area High School Students — to enroll in college courses on-campus and online with ESU, with all the privileges accorded to an ESU student. Increased scholarships allow for a new Jump Start / Concurrent Enrollment program for local high school students (from Emporia and surrounding counties). ESU is providing scholarships to students to make courses affordable at $21 per credit hour. High school students can take up to nine credit hours per semester and six in the summer. These new Jump Start program scholarships are philanthropically funded by our generous donors.
- Free applications to the university — for undergraduate students. This move streamlines the admissions process and simplifies a student’s first steps to becoming a Hornet. It is available to all domestic first-time, transfer, second bachelor’s-seeking, non-traditional and distance undergraduate students.
- In-state tuition expanded across the continental United States — open to all on-campus, full-time, degree-seeking undergraduate students.