Arizona's three public universities propose to hike tuition up to 5 percent for the next academic year, according to the state's university officials.
Arizona State University (ASU) and University of Arizona (UA) tuitions will be boosted by 3 percent, while freshman at Northern Arizona University (NAU) will experience a 5 percent tuition raise.
The proposed hike at ASU is the lowest in the past decade. New resident undergraduates at ASU will be paying around $9,484, which is an increase of $276.
On the other hand, UA resident undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees would cost up to $10, 391, up by $356. UA students will also face an $80 library fee increase.
At NAU, where the proposed tuition has been increased to the maximum by 5 percent, new resident undergraduate students will be paying a total $9,738, up by $467 from 2012
Tuition and fees for new resident undergraduate students at NAU would total $9,738 next year, an increase of $467 from last year. However, the university has frozen its tuition fee for the next four years for incoming freshman.
"We need to have this money to continue to offer the services that we have been offering," Allen Reich, a hospitality professor, NAU, told San Francisco Chronicle.
The Arizona Board of Regents will discuss the proposals, March 27, and finalise tuition and fee rates for 2013 academic year, April.
Board chairman Rick Myers told the newspaper that students will still be paying less tuition than their peers at other universities.
Since 2007, the tuition and fees in the state's public universities have increased by more than 90 percent.
