FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 3, 2006

Contact: Eric Gerber
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HOUSTON, April 3, 2006– The University of Houston System Board of Regents has approved tuition and fee increases at its four universities for fiscal year 2007.

The increases, which average 9.6 percent for the entire system, will take effect with the fall 2006 semester. The change was discussed and voted on in a specially called meeting Monday at the University of Houston.

The UH System consists of UH, the University of Houston-Clear Lake, the University of Houston-Downtown and the University of Houston-Victoria.

Defraying the cost of rising energy prices played a significant role in the increases, accounting for a third of the system-wide rise in tuition and fees.

At the University of Houston, which will have a 9.9 percent increase, a resident undergraduate student taking 12 hours will pay about $263 more per semester.

At UH-Clear Lake, with a 8.9 percent increase, the student will pay about $172 more per semester.

At UH-Downtown, with a 9.9 percent increase, the student will pay about $167 more per semester.

At UH-Victoria, with a 7.5 percent increase, the student will pay about $132 more per semester.

For more information about the UH System Board of Regents, visit http://www.uhsa.uh.edu/regents/.

ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON SYSTEM

The University of Houston System is the state’s only metropolitan higher education system, encompassing four universities and two multi-institution teaching centers. The universities are the University of Houston, a nationally recognized doctoral degree-granting, comprehensive research university; the University of Houston-Downtown, a four-year undergraduate university beginning limited expansion into graduate programs; and the University of Houston-Clear Lake and the University of Houston-Victoria, both upper division and master’s-level institutions. The centers are the UH System at Sugar Land in Fort Bend and the UH System at Cinco Ranch. In addition, the UH System includes KUHF-FM, Houston’s National Public Radio and classical radio station, and KUHT-TV, the nation’s first educational television station.

For more information about UH visit the university’s ‘Newsroom’ at www.uh.edu/admin/media/newsroom.