EAST LANSING - Michigan State University is increasing its tuition prices for all undergraduates starting with the upcoming fall semester. Some msu students are in disbelief.

"I don't know, it just seems nuts that they're going to have to raise tuition once again. I don't have a lot of money, and I know that other families are struggling with this same kind of issues in this economic time," said Caitlin Weathers, MSU student.

The MSU Board of Trustees adopted the new budget plan on June 21. The tuition increases were lower than expected. Dave Byelich, director for planning and budgets, said the tuition increase was predicted to be four percent.

The average increase in tuition for an MSU undergrad next year is 2.8 percent, with a 1.9 percent increase going to underclassmen, and a 3.6 percent increase going to upperclassmen. Now Byelich tells me had state appropriations kept up with the inflation rate over the last ten years, MSU tuition would be 21.5 percent lower. Regardless of the cause, the increase in tuition has many MSU undergrads wanting to send the budgeting committee back to the drawing board.

"A lot of universities I feel like have a requirement that you have to get so many credits at their university to get a degree from there, and I'm already like so far along that I don't wan to like go and switch to a different university," said MSU student Lucas Flynn.

Like many MSU students, Flynn will opt to pay the additional tuition fees rather than transfer. Still, he had a positive positive point of view on the tuition increases.

"I'll be out of here soon. I won't have to worry about it," Flynn added.