The Eastern Kentucky University Board of Regents has approved a 2012-13 operating budget of $235,769,831 (not including restricted funds), an increase of approximately 1 percent over the previous year.
State appropriations for EKU decreased 6.4 percent ($4.6 million) in the Commonwealth’s 2012-13 biennial budget. (All public institutions are faced with the same percentage of budget reductions to their state appropriations.)
The budget does not include an across-the-board salary increase for faculty and staff. It incorporates a 5 percent tuition increase for undergraduate tuition for Kentucky residents. EKU’s tuition rate continues to rank in the middle of the pack among four-year public universities in Kentucky.