A Princely Fee

A Harvard graduate degree may be the ticket to a rosy financial future, but it will be a more expensive ticket next year, as eight of Harvard's nine graduate schools announced tution increases ranging from 6.3 to 13 per cent.

Officials at the schools all cited inflation and the high cost of living as the primary reasons for the increases.

At the Medical School, where tution will rise 13 per cent to $6500, Mitchell Adams '66, dean for finance and business at the Med School, blamed surging constructions costs of the Med School's new power plant for the large increase.

Adams said capital expenses for the plant will rise from $450,000 in 1980 to $1.5 million in 1981. The tution increase should help meet a projected budget deficit of $1.5 million, he added.

The plant, which is scheduled to go into operation October 1, will provide heat, chilled water, and possibly electricity to the Med School, the School of Public Health, and related Harvard facilities in the Back Bay area of Boston, Adams said. Despite the large capital expenses, the plant will probably save money in the long run because it consumes 20 per cent less fuel oil than the 70-year-old power plant the University now operates, Adams added.

The Business School tuition will rise 6.3 per cent to $5100; the Dental School 13 per cent to $6500; the Divinity School 10.5 per cent to $3700; the Graduate School of Education 10 per cent to $5120; the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 9.3 per cent to $5300; the Kennedy School of Government 9.3 per cent to $5300; the Medical School 13 per cent to $6500; and the School of Public Health 8.7 per cent to $5000.

A proposed increase at the Law School has not yet been approved by Harvard's governing boards and administrators at the Graduate School of Design have not yet announced next year's tuition.

At the Divinity School, students will pay 10.5 per cent more in 1979-80, but at $3700, that school remains the least expensive Harvard graduate school.

The 6 per cent increase at the Business School represents the smallest of the cost hikes. "We worked hard to keep the costs down because we realize that graduate school is a tremendous expense," Timothy W. Armour, associate dean of the Business School, said Thursday.