The UNC Board of Governors will decide Friday whether in-state students will pay an additional $300 in tuition to attend N.C. State next year.

The BOG’s budget and finance committee approved the 6.2 percent hike for undergraduate residents Thursday, according to committee member and Association of Student Governments President Atul Bhula. The full board will consider NCSU’s proposed hike, along with the proposals from the other UNC System campuses, at its meeting Friday morning.

According to NCSU Provost Warwick Arden, the committee approved the tuition hike as suggested by the Board of Trustees, the University’s governing body. 

“Everything was approved as we had submitted it,” Arden, who did not attend the committee meeting Thursday, said. “If you go back to the memo the chancellor sent the Board of Trustees last November, it goes through the recommendations that were approved through our Board of Trustees.”

The Board of Trustees proposal was divided into two categories, according to Arden. 

“We have a regular campus-initiated increase, which will increase the base tuition,” Arden said.  “It’ll be $300 more for undergraduate residents and $600 more for others. That’s where the 6.2 percent comes from.”

The other category, according to Arden, is premium tuition.

“We have a number of premium tuitions, which are only for professional degree programs, which were approved as submitted,” Arden said.

According to Arden, the campus-initiated tuition increase will affect more students than the premium increase.

If the UNC Board of Governors approves the hike, it will move on to the General Assembly.

“Our tuition increases are bottled with everyone else in the UNC System,” Arden said.  “The legislature has the authority to approve this and add other increases as well.”

Thirteen campuses within the UNC System asked for the maximum possible tuition increase of 6.5 percent. N.C. Central asked for a 5 percent increase.