SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) – The Southern Illinois University System will not increase undergraduate tuition rates at its Edwardsville and Carbondale campuses in the 2024-2025 school year.

The SIU Board of Trustees voted to freeze undergraduate tuition rates at its meeting in Carbondale Thursday.

SIU Carbondale has not raised the undergraduate tuition rate in seven years. SIU Edwardsville’s undergrad tuition rate has had two small increases since 2019.

For more information on undergraduate tuition rates at SIU Edwardsville and Carbondale, please visit siue.edu/paying-for-college/ and tuition.siuc.edu/.

“We thank Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and the General Assembly for continuous increases in higher education funding, which included a significant 7% increase for public universities in 2023,” said Phil Gilbert, chairman of the SIU Board of Trustees.

SIU employs more than 7,000 faculty, staff and administrators and has about 23,500 students through the campuses in Carbondale, Edwardsville and Springfield.