Statutory and Designated Tuition

Definition

Statutory and Designated tuition is the tuition paid to UTA by our students. For purposes of the budget allocation model, approximately 15% has been taken off the top to cover mandatory set asides, including financial aid, refunds, and bad debt. [Fund code 3100 and 3105 for Designated, and 2100 for Statutory]

Decision

Statutory and Designated Tuition revenue (net of set asides) is aggregated into four tuition buckets - undergraduate resident, undergraduate non-resident, graduate resident, and graduate non-resident (non-resident students who pay resident tuition are part of the resident tuition buckets, as well as non-resident online distance education (NRODE) students).

Each of these buckets are then divided with 80% of the tuition revenue of each bucket going to the college of Instruction (COI) and 20% going to the college of the students' major (COM).

The aggregated tuition revenue in each divided bucket is then distributed to the colleges/school based on their percentage of student credit hours (SCH) taught to students in that bucket.

The colleges/school are then taxed at 45.7% to cover the cost of administrative/support units. For purposes of the budget model, all units except for the eight academic colleges/school, are considered administrative/support units, including the offices of the President, Provost, and CFO.

Impact

UTA serves a substantial number of students with mandatory waivers. By aggregating the tuition, it reduces the impact of waivers on any one college by spreading the cost of mandatory waivers across the colleges/school. It also ensures that there is no incentive for a college/school to make admission decisions based on waiver status.

In regard to non-resident students who receive a waiver to pay resident tuition, it moves those students to the resident tuition buckets so that the college who gives the waiver receives the loss of revenue from the waiver.