Tuition Rates

State Board for Community Colleges to consider 2025-26 Tuition and Fees at meeting on May 22, 2025

Media Contact:
Susan Pollard, VCCS Assistant Vice Chancellor for Strategic Communications
[email protected]

In accordance with Section 23.1-307 (D) of the Code of Virginia, the State Board for Community Colleges provides notice that at its regular business meeting on May 22, 2025, it will consider tuition and mandatory fee increases for Virginia’s Community Colleges, effective fall semester 2025.  The May 22 meeting will occur at 9 a.m. at the Virginia Community College System, System Office, 300 Arboretum Place, Richmond, VA 23236.

For in-state students, the State Board will consider tuition and mandatory fee increases of between $4.75/credit hour and $8.00/credit hour. For out-of-state students, the Board will consider tuition and fee increases ranging between $7.25/credit hour and $10.50/credit hour.

The tuition and fee increases are necessary to pay for additional costs of operating Virginia’s community colleges, including costs associated with state-mandated compensation and benefit increases, technology costs, insurance premiums and inflationary cost pressures.

Current tuition and mandatory fees at Virginia’s Community Colleges are: $163.40/credit hour for in-state students, and $378.00 for out-of-state students.  You can see details about tuition and fees on the VCCS website

Virginia Community college tuition remains less than one-third the cost of attending public four-year baccalaureate institutions.

Written comments from the public will be accepted through May 21 and will be made available to the Board before action on tuition is taken. Written comments may be sent to Andrew Kachur, Executive Coordinator for the Chancellor, at [email protected], or they may be mailed to the attention of Andrew Kachur at:

Office of the Chancellor
Virginia Community College System
300 Arboretum Parkway
Richmond, Virginia 23236