Fee Hike from Fall 2026 onwards: Did they sneak in Athletic and other fees with just a new name?
From Fall 2026, the mandatory fees for taking 4+ credits has gone from $440 to $531. While the on-campus mandatory fee only increased by $10.
While checking the footnote, it leads to https://bursar.gatech.edu/student/tuition/2526_Fact_Sheet.pdf which mentions -
>Online Learning Fee
The Board of Regents (BOR) imposed the Online Learning Fee for students in online programs beginning in Fiscal Year 2025. Fully online students will be charged an online learning fee equivalent to the technology fee as well as 50% of the other mandatory fees.
This has two implications -
- All other fees, which are technically not valid for Online students are still being applied to us, in some form. Yes, including the athletic fees which everyone protested and filled forms about.
- THE CALCULATIONS DON'T MATCH UP FOR 2026-27!!
- In 2024-25, the Online Fees is $440 which is nearly equal to $((748 - 129) * 0.5 + 129) = $438.50
- But in 2025-26, the same Online Fees is $531, but calculates upto $((758 - 129) * 0.5 + 129) = $443.50 which is almost $87 lesser than what they are actually going to charge.
Either GT folks forgot basic maths, or they are fine with openly lying through their golden grinning teeth.
Reference links -
BTW, in the PDFs, they also link https://www.budgets.gatech.edu/mResources/MSFAC which is a dead page. So apparently even the Technology fees isn't being to used to keep the docs updated properly.
