UConn School of Medicine increasing tuition each of next 3 years. Here’s by how much

Hartford Courant – Friday, May 22, 2026
By Livi Stanford

Tuition costs are at UConn’s School of Medicine will increase by nearly 10% over the next three years for in-state students. Officials cited inflation, increases in salaries and fringe costs and state funding cuts in the decision.

Beginning next academic year, in-state students will see a 2% increase in tuition followed by 3.6% in 27-28 and 3.7% in 28-29. In 28-29 in-state students will pay $58,396, which includes tuition, professional fees and health insurance.

Non-residents will see an increase of 2.2% annually over the next three years.

The UConn Board of Trustees approved the tuition increases and professional fees at its meeting this week. Professionals fees are expected to jump 16.8% to $3,250 next fiscal year and then remain unchanged the following two years.

Lauren Woods, communications director and spokesperson for UConn School of Medicine, said the school expects to have a balanced budget through various mechanisms.

“We are not making a profit by raising tuition,” Woods said. “Tuition covers the investments we make in our students’ education and to cover the rising costs of medical education teaching, high-tech training technology and laboratories and important student programs and scholarly activities.”

Woods also said that UConn’s medical school is “still continuing to look for other ways to lighten financial burdens for our students which includes garnering philanthropic support for student scholarships.

“Thankfully several new philanthropic gifts have been recently received by the medical school and we are actively exploring ways to apply them toward student scholarships,” she said.

UConn Board of Trustees Chair Daniel D. Toscano said in the meeting that, “The fine line that this budget is trying to accomplish is, I think, first and foremost affordability, which is an ever-increasing topic in professional schools, particularly medical schools, competitiveness not only quality of the school but also how we compare to our peer group as it relates to cost for the student.”

He said moving forward, philanthropy is an “ever increasing part of the puzzle here.

“We’re going to have to continue to push all of these levers so that we can try to achieve some sort of neutrality on a cost of attendance basis,” he said.

The Association of American Medical Colleges ranks UConn School of Medicine as 15th highest for costs for residents and non-residents.

Woods said that UConn School of Medicine’s “tuition cost is actually at the average of other Northeast public medical schools.”

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