What other universities have implemented a per credit pricing policy? What has been the impact on enrollment and student credit hours?
One of our peer institutions—the University of Alabama-Birmingham—recently moved from a plateau system of assessing tuition to a per credit model. Due to concerns about the effect that this change might have on enrollment and student credit hours, the transition to a per credit model was implemented gradually. This allowed the university to evaluate the impact on student behavior. The university saw no measurable impact on enrollment or credit hours resulting from the change in assessment policy. There are also a number of UW System campuses that have recently implemented a per credit tuition policy: UW-Eau Claire, UW-Oshkosh, UW-River Falls, and UW-Superior have all implemented a per credit pricing policy for summer session graduate students only. None of these campuses indicated that they experienced a drop in enrollment subsequent to this change to per credit tuition. In addition, UW-Stout is in the process of phasing-in a per credit tuition system. Beginning in Fall 2002, new fresh
