College tuition, room, board and mandatory fees will cost $25, 720 for the 1994-1995 academic year, an increase of $1,471 from last year, the Trustees announced at their winter meeting in Washington, D.C. late last week.
The new cost represents a 6.94 percent increase in tuition and mandatory fees, which makes up 76 percent of the total cost. Last year the Trustees increased tuition 6 percent.
Students living off-campus, who are not required to pay for College housing, will pay $19,650 for the 1994-1995 school year.
College President James Freedman said the tuition increase is commensurate with the "regular ongoing costs of the College."
Freedman also said the rise in tuition will enable the College to increase faculty salaries. The tuition increases are not related to the new curriculum to be implemented with the Class of 1998, Freedman said.
Lyn Hutton, vice president and treasurer of the College, said the tuition increase was necessary.
"We're trying to keep our expenses growing at a lower rate and looking at other options for revenue instead of tuition," Hutton said.
The College can also raise revenue through campaigns put on by organizations like the Alumni Fund, Hutton said.
Since 1989, the College has tried to decrease the rate of tuition growth, said Edwin Johnson, associate treasurer of the College.
The policy to maintain low tuition increases was a three-year commitment to keep the increase rate in line with inflation, Johnson said.
From 1980 to 1985 , the College's tuition increased at an average rate of 12.2 percent each year. During the early 1980s, inflation hovered in the low teens.
But since that period, tuition increases have remained in the single digits.
In the late 1980s, Dartmouth had one of the highest Ivy League tuitions. The College now has one of the lowest tuitions in the Ivy League, Johnson said.
The Trustees also approved hikes in tuition at the College's graduate schools.
The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration will raise its tuition by 6.39 percent, Dartmouth Medical School's tuition will increase by 2.02 percent and the Thayer School of Engineering's fees are the same as the College's.
While in Washington, the Trustees also met with Robert Reich '68, the U.S. Secretary of Labor and a former Dartmouth Trustee; Missouri Senator Jack Danforth; and Roger Bulger, president of the Association of Academic Health Centers.
