The board of the State System of Higher Education voted Thursday for the higher rate.
Tuition at Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities is going up by 3.5 percent for 2015-16, Pennlive.com reports.
East Stroudsburg University is one of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education schools. (Lehighvalleylive.com file photo) The board of the State System of Higher Education voted Thursday for the higher rate despite Gov. Tom Wolf's request that it remain level.
Pennlive.com reports that the decision increases in-state undergraduate tuition by $240 to $7,060 a year. There's also a policy that means a technology fee will go up by $14 to $436 a year.
Full-time, nonresident tuition will range from about $7,413 to $17,650.
The state system schools are Bloomsburg, California, Cheyney, Clarion, East Stroudsburg, Edinboro, Indiana, Kutztown, Lock Haven, Mansfield, Millersville, Shippensburg, Slippery Rock and West Chester.
Their enrollment is about 100,000 students.