Undergraduate tuition will increase by 3.5 percent next academic year, bringing the cost of tuition to just under $70,000, the University announced Friday.

The increase will raise GW’s undergraduate tuition to $69,780, bringing the total cost of attendance for the 2025-26 school year to over $94,000. The release states that the University is committed to making a GW education a “realistic” option for students and encourages them to apply for financial aid through GW’s Open Doors need-based aid program.

Officials have raised GW’s tuition annually since the Board of Trustees announced in 2019 that they were ending the University’s long-standing fixed tuition policy, which had guaranteed students a single, fixed tuition rate for up to 10 consecutive semesters.

Officials raised GW’s tuition by 2.1 percent in 2021, 4.5 percent in 2022, 4.3 percent in 2023 and 4.2 percent in 2024, making this year’s 3.5 percent increase the first time since 2021 that the increase has been under 4 percent.

The University also announced it was increasing its base rate for housing and dining to $17,600, a $680 increase from the previous year. The base residence hall room rate is $11,300, and the dining rate is $6,300 for the academic year, the release states.

All undergraduate students who live on campus are required to purchase a meal plan.

The increase places GW’s tuition cost in the middle out of six of GW’s 12 peer schools who have announced their 2025-26 tuition prices. The University of Miami—whose estimated tuition clocked in this year as the least expensive of the peer schools—will cost $63,452 next year, while the University of Southern California, the highest estimated tuition, will cost $73,260.