The Rensselaer Board of Trustees has set undergraduate and graduate tuition
at $26,400 for the 2002-2003 academic year. This represents a 6.37 percent increase in undergraduate tuition compared to the current academic year.

The graduate school has not assessed a comprehensive fee in this fashion before. So, it is difficult to compare graduate school expenses for this year and next. As we reported two weeks ago, the Board of Trustees only decided to change the way graduate students pay for their education recently.