Tuition will go up for the tenth year in a row.

With a swift vote Friday, the WSU Board of Regents opted to raise tuition for the 2026-27 school year by 3.3%.

The tuition hike drives resident undergraduate tuition up by nearly $400 and non-resident undergraduate tuition by almost $1,000. Graduate resident tuition, for both the in-person and Global campus, will go up $445, and Graduate non-resident tuition will go up by almost $1,000.

Washington State only allows universities to raise tuition by 3.3% every year, making this the third consecutive year the university has hit the limit.

The only dissenting voice was Student Regent Amina Hussein, who joined student governments system-wide in arguing WSU should go with a 2.8% increase instead.

Also during the meeting, the Regents approved $12 million in donor-funded improvements to Gesa Field.

The improvements will include a new video board, speakers and lights.

The renovation is expected to conclude before the start of the 2026 WSU football season. WSU has raised $5.5 million so far, and if another $1.5 million is not raised before Dec. 15, the renovations will be pushed back.

The Regents authorized the university to sell up to $5 million in bonds to cover construction costs until pledges are fulfilled.

Gesa was last renovated in 2012.