The Houston Baptist University Board of Trustees has announced undergraduate tuition and fees for the 2010-2011 academic year. This new tuition and fee schedule will maintain the University’s position as one of the most affordable four-year private institutions in the nation.
The total cost of attendance, which includes tuition, fees, and room and board, will increase 9.73 percent for freshmen and transfer students entering HBU in the fall of 2010. Continuing students will see a net increase of 6.9 percent in tuition, after a $600 grant is applied to the balance of all returning undergraduates.

To make an HBU education more accessible than ever, the University will offer generous scholarship and financial aid packages to all eligible freshmen and transfer students. In the fall of 2010, the University plans to award more than $7.5 million in gift aid to freshmen and transfer students, an increase of $2 million over the $5.5 million in gift aid awarded in the fall of 2009. Approximately 88 percent of HBU students benefit from some form of need or merit-based financial assistance.

The new tuition and fees schedule will allow HBU to continue to move forward with implementing The Ten Pillars, a twelve-year vision designed to transform the institution into one of the nation’s most comprehensive Christian universities.

HBU continues to serve more students than ever before, with a record undergraduate and graduate enrollment of 2,710 students in the fall of 2009. Growth trends in the past three years suggest that more and more students and their families value the distinctly Christian education offered at HBU.

Overall, undergraduate tuition for 2010-2011 will be $21,970, which is up from $19,990 in 2009-2010. HBU will set tuition rates for its graduate programs in the spring.