The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education today set tuition and mandatory fee levels for Oklahoma’s public colleges and universities. Tuition and mandatory fees for resident undergraduate students in 2025-26 will not increase at 10 institutions across the state system of higher education. For in-state undergraduate students, tuition and mandatory fees will increase an average of 1.9% statewide for the 2025-26 academic year.
“Keeping public higher education affordable for families is a responsibility the State Regents take very seriously,” said State Regents’ chair Dennis Casey. “As Oklahomans navigate a challenging economy, the State Regents work to balance those needs with the operating requirements of our state system institutions, which must maintain academic quality and student support services to continue building Oklahoma’s educated workforce.”
On average, an Oklahoma undergraduate college student will pay $4.06 more per credit hour for tuition and mandatory fees in 2025-26.
“Our top priority as a state system is increasing degree completion to meet critical employment needs,” said Chancellor Sean Burrage. “This modest increase will advance campus innovations, expansion of business and industry collaborations, and other key goals outlined in our Blueprint 2030 strategic plan.”
Oklahoma State University, Rogers State University, Cameron University, Oklahoma Panhandle State University, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Carl Albert State College, Eastern Oklahoma State College, Northern Oklahoma College, Redlands Community College, and Tulsa Community College will not increase tuition and mandatory fees for resident undergraduate students.
The University of Oklahoma will increase in-state tuition and mandatory fees by 3.0% annually for full-time undergraduates.
Tuition and mandatory fee increases at the public regional universities average 2.0% annually for full-time in-state undergraduates.
Oklahoma’s public community colleges will increase in-state tuition and mandatory fee rates for a full-time student by an average of 1.8% annually.
State law requires tuition and mandatory fees to remain at levels below the average among comparable institutions. Oklahoma’s public colleges and universities continue to keep tuition and mandatory fees well within those limits, at an average of only 73.8% of the cost at peer institutions, despite significant increases in utilities, property insurance costs, and other operating expenses.
The law also requires the State Regents to make a reasonable effort to increase financial aid across the state system proportionate to any increase in tuition. Including new scholarship programs, tuition waivers and scholarships provided by state system institutions will increase 5.3% from FY 2025.
In addition, the State Regents administer Oklahoma’s Promise, a state scholarship program that allows high school students from middle- and low-income families to earn a college tuition scholarship. More than 115,000 Oklahomans have earned the Oklahoma’s Promise scholarship since the program’s inception. Learn more at https://okpromise.org/.