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In-State Tuition Offered to Students in Missouri, Iowa and WisconsinDespite being "out-of-state" residents, college students from Missouri, Iowa and Wisconsin now have the same benefits as Illinois residents: in-state tuition and fees from Western Illinois University. Western's Board of Trustees recently approved granting in-state tuition and fees to students residing in Missouri, Iowa and Wisconsin, beginning Fall 2009. While nearly 10,000 students hail from the Prairie State, approximately 745 students come to Western from the Show Me, Hawkeye and Badger states. "Providing in-state tuition and fees to all residents of Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin is an extension of our longstanding tradition of offering our affordable in-state rates to students living in Missouri and Iowa border counties," noted President Al Goldfarb. "Western wants to be the public choice for students in Illinois, as well as for those students from throughout the region." New undergraduate students from Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin entering Western in Fall 2009 will pay $6,778.80 in annual tuition (based on 15 hours per semester at a $225.96 per semester hour rate), while fees for incoming Western-Macomb students will be $2,178.60 per year beginning Fall 2009. "Western is one of four public universities in the state with the most affordable tuition and fees, while providing nationally recognized, high-quality academic programs; and Western remains one of the only universities in the state that includes room and board in our cost guarantee," Goldfarb added. "Students entering Western this fall will not face another cost increase in tuition, fees or room and board during their continuous enrollment at WIU." In 1999 the University established its Cost Guarantee program in which students entering Western are guaranteed they will pay the same rate for tuition, fees and on-campus room and board for their four years of continuous enrollment. Western's Cost Guarantee is the only public university program in Illinois that provides no increases in fees and room and board in addition to the Illinois statutory requirement of guaranteed four-year tuition rates. Western Illinois also offers the Cost Guarantee to graduate students enrolled in a degree program, as well as to transfer students earning an associate's degree. Those students who transfer to WIU the following semester upon completing their associate's degree will receive the previous year's cost guarantee rates.
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