The University of Wisconsin System is looking at a variety of tuition options as a way to increase access to college while also gaining more revenue if state budgets slide.
An advisory committee will recommend to the Board of Regents on Thursday that it consider tuition stratification — charging more for institutions in high demand — and differential tuition — charging more for more expensive programs such as engineering, which is already being done to some extent.
The UW System also already uses tuition stratification to some extent, charging higher tuition for UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee than for other four-year universities and charging less for the two-year UW colleges than the four-year institutions.