Locked Rate/Variable Rate Tuition - Undergraduate Students

Resident Students

Incoming undergraduate resident students will have to select a tuition rate code in Howdy through the "My Finances" tab in the "Billing Tuition and Fees" channel before being allowed to register for classes for the first time.

All incoming freshmen will have a choice of opting into either:

• The Four-Year Locked Rate or 
• The Variable Rate is set annually using factors such as inflationary cost increases, new strategic initiatives, and the overall needs of the university.

All transfer and re-admit students will have a choice of opting into:

• The Current Four-Year Locked Rate or 
• The First Term of Enrollment Locked Rate, which corresponds with the calculated remaining years since their first enrolled term after high school (possibly less per hour, but shorter duration before expiration) or
• The Variable Rate is set annually using factors such as inflationary cost increases, new strategic initiatives, and the overall needs of the university.

Example costs per semester of 2020-2021 tuition and fees for a student in the College of Liberal Arts paying in-state tuition and registered for 12 or more hours

To view tuition and fee rates for other colleges within Texas A&M University, please visit the Tuition Calculator on the Student Business Services website.

The locked plan is a compounded four-year average, allowing for a per semester fixed rate of required tuition and fees for twelve consecutive full semesters, or four consecutive years, from the time of first enrollment in any institution of higher education after high school. After the expiration of four years, students will pay the current year's variable rates each term until completion.

The variable plan will be set annually using factors such as inflationary cost increases, new strategic initiatives, and the overall needs of the university.

You can view rate sheets for both Resident and Non-Resident students at Tuition and Required Fees.

Non-Resident Students

House Bill 29 passed by the 83rd legislature on June 14, 2013 mandated that "public state colleges" offer a fixed tuition price plan. The intent of the legislature was to ensure that students who reside in the State of Texas are able to take advantage of a locked-in rate of tuition over the course of 4 years.

The State of Texas funds a portion of each resident student's tuition and therefore governs how state institutions bill tuition for those students. The State, however, does not fund "non-resident" tuition, so mandates issued by the state for the fixed-rate tuition plan do not apply to non-resident students as mentioned by the above statute.

Non-resident students will default to the variable-rate plan.

For additional information regarding tuition rate plans, please visit:

"TLR and TVR Explanations"

 "Locked Rate vs. Variable Rate Tuition - What is the difference?"