UWI St. Augustine Campus Grants Stay On Tuition Fee Increase For 2025-2026
The University of the West Indies (The UWI) St. Augustine Campus wishes to advise that the approved tuition fee increase of 20% will not take effect during the upcoming academic year.
The decision to increase the tuition fees of the St. Augustine Campus by 20% was made by the University Council, the highest authority of The UWI, on May 2nd, 2025. This was made after 24 years without a fee increase, with the attendant financial hardship to the campus. The consensus decision was made after extensive consultation and research through a special Fee Committee comprising Guild-appointed representatives, actuaries and business professionals. The Committee recommended a 25% fee increase.
Subsequently, at the Campus Finance & General Purposes Committee (F&GPC) of April 20th, 2023, after further representation from the Guild of Students, consensus was reached that the fee increase would be 20% and this was the amount approved by Council.
At the Campus F&GPC last semester, the Guild of Students, which stated its understanding and continued support for the 20% tuition fee increase, made a specific request to mitigate the consequences of the fee increase for current students, asking that the Campus not place students on financial hold if students paid 80% of their fees, thereby enabling them to register and allowing more time to pay the 20% increase. The Campus F&GPC agreed unanimously to this request of the Guild of Students in the spirit of compromise.
Notwithstanding the previous concessions, the Campus has been presented with new information and there is an opportunity for temporary alternative arrangements to be made. Accordingly, it sought and obtained permission from the Chancellor (on behalf of Council) to execute a Stay of Council’s Decision on The Fee Increase for the entire academic year 2025 – 2026. This means that all students will be exempt from paying the new tuition fee at this time.
