The Longwood University Board of Visitors voted Thursday to approve modest tuition and fee increases for 2025-26, extending the University’s decade-long record of keeping cost increases among the very lowest of all public universities in the Commonwealth.
The Board approved a 1.3 percent increase of Longwood’s published tuition rate for in-state undergraduates. Including required non-Education & General fees, total published prices for in-state students will rise $510 for the coming academic year, to $16,250, based on a 30-credit yearly load. Tuition and mandatory fees for out-of-state undergraduates will increase $510, to $28,490.
Because of Commonwealth support and other scholarship resources, most Longwood students receive some form of financial aid, which means they pay a “net price” that is already lower than the full, published price. Longwood anticipates the average “net price” for students and families this coming year—that is, what they actually pay—will be approximately flat. Longwood—thanks to a hefty range of scholarship resources—continues to invest heavily in financial aid and has extended to students strong financial aid packages for 2025-26.
Despite sharply higher operating costs due to inflation, Longwood will continue its commitment to affordability. Published and net prices have increased well below the overall rate of consumer-price inflation in recent years. Over the last decade, published price increases have averaged only a little over 2 percent annually—among the very lowest of the Commonwealth’s public institutions.