Texas Administrative Code
Title 19 - EDUCATION
Part 1 - TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD
Chapter 13 - FINANCIAL PLANNING
Subchapter G - TUITION AND FEES
Section 13.122 - Determination of Tuition Rate for Nonresident Students

Universal Citation: 19 TX Admin Code § 13.122

Current through Reg. 50, No. 13; March 28, 2025

(a) Authorizing Statute. The Coordinating Board's responsibilities regarding tuition rates for nonresident students are authorized through Texas Education Code, § 54.051, "Tuition Rates," and §54.0601, "Nonresident Tuition Rates at Certain Institutions," and the Coordinating Board is authorized to adopt rules by §54.075.

(b) The following words and terms, when used in this section, shall have the following meanings:

(1) Off-Campus Degree Program--A degree program that delivers fifty (50) percent or more of required instruction or coursework in-person at an off-campus educational site.

(2) Off-Campus Educational Site--A location where an institution delivers required instruction for a credit-bearing course, certificate, or degree program in person. For a public university, health-related institution, or a Lamar state college, an off-campus educational site is any location outside the parent institution. For a community college (public junior college), an off-campus educational site is a site outside the public junior college service area. An off-campus educational site includes, but is not limited to:
(A) Branch Campus--For a university, a major, secondary location of an institution offering multiple programs usually with its own administrative structure and usually headed by a dean. A branch campus must be established by the Legislature or approved by the Board. A junior college branch campus is approved and operated in accordance with Texas Education Code, chapter 130, subchapter K, and Board rules.

(B) Extension Center--For Texas State Technical College, as defined in § 11.3(5) of this title (relating to Definitions), a site, operating under the administration of a campus, that has an extension program.

(C) Multi-Institution Teaching Center (MITC)--For a university, an off-campus educational unit administered under a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between two or more institutions of higher education. It may also involve one or more private or independent institution of higher education. It has minimal administration and locally provided facilities.

(D) Regional Academic Health Center (RAHC)--A special purpose campus of a parent health-related institution(s) that may be used to provide undergraduate clinical education, graduate education, including a residency training program, or other level of medical education in specifically identified counties.

(E) Single Institution Center--An off-campus educational unit administered by a single parent institution. It has minimal administration and locally provided facilities.

(F) Special Purpose Campus--A major, secondary location of an institution offering programs related to specific and limited field(s) of study, usually with its own administrative structure and usually headed by a dean. Regional Academic Health Centers are considered special-purpose campuses. Special Purpose Campuses must be established by the Legislature or approved by the Board.

(G) University System Center (USC)--An off-campus educational unit administered by a single university system comprised of two or more of the system's parent institutions. A memorandum of understanding must be established between all parties that governs the operations of the USC. It has minimal administration and locally provided facilities.

(3) Off-Campus Student--A regularly enrolled student who is admitted to an institution and fifty (50) percent or more of the student's instruction is delivered in person at an off-campus location.

(4) On-Campus Student--A regularly enrolled student who is admitted to an institution and fifty (50) percent or more of instruction is delivered at an institution's main campus or on one or more of the campuses within a multi-campus public junior college.

(5) Parent Institution--The primary campus or campuses of an institution of higher education providing courses, certificates, and degree programs at an off-campus educational site.

(c) In accordance with Texas Education Code, § 54.051(m), the tuition rates for nonresident students that are provided by the applicable provisions of Texas Education Code, chapters 51 and 54, will be applied to any student who does not demonstrate residency per chapter 21, subchapter B of this title (relating to Determination of Resident Status), regardless of the student's citizenship.

(d) Prior to January 1 of each calendar year in which the academic year begins, or as soon thereafter as is practicable, the Coordinating Board shall determine the minimum nonresident tuition rate per subsection (e) of this section, and report the rate to the appropriate institutions, pursuant to Texas Education Code, § 51.051(d). This minimum rate generally applies to nonresident students enrolled in general academic teaching and health-related institutions, unless Texas law provides for a different rate to be applied to a particular program or student.

(e) The minimum nonresident tuition rate set per semester credit hour per subsection (d) of this section, is calculated as dictated by Texas Education Code, § 54.051.

(f) Alternate Nonresident Tuition Rate. General academic teaching institutions, as defined by Texas Education Code, § 61.003, "Definitions," are eligible to request an alternate nonresident tuition rate that is lower than otherwise calculated by subsection (d) of this section.

(1) A general academic teaching institution may request an alternate nonresident tuition rate if the primary physical address of the parent institution is located within a 100-mile radius of the boundary of Texas with another U.S. state. If approved, this nonresident tuition rate applies only to the institution's on-campus students but includes students taking courses at both the parent institution and its off-campus educational sites.

(2) A general academic teaching institution may request an alternate nonresident tuition rate if the primary physical address of an off-campus educational site offering at least one off-campus degree program is located within a 100-mile radius of the boundary of Texas with another U.S. state. If approved, this nonresident tuition rate applies only to the institution's off-campus students enrolled in an off-campus degree program offered at the approved off-campus educational site but includes students taking courses at both the parent institution and its off-campus educational sites.

(3) The nonresident tuition rate under this subsection may be applied only to nonresident students who would otherwise be charged the minimum nonresident tuition rate or a multiplier of such rate. This includes undergraduate, graduate, law school, nursing and allied health profession, optometry, and undergraduate and graduate pharmacy students. It does not include M.D., D.O., D.D.S, or D.V.M. students.

(4) For an institution that charges a nonresident tuition rate under this subsection, the Coordinating Board may not include in a formula under Texas Education Code, § 61.059, "Appropriations," funding based on the number of nonresident undergraduate students enrolled at the institution in excess of 10 percent of the total number of undergraduate students enrolled at the institution.

(5) In order to utilize a nonresident tuition rate under this subsection, the governing board of the institution, or designee if permitted by law, must submit a written request to the Coordinating Board that includes:
(A) the proposed methodology for determining the nonresident tuition rate that the institution will use under this subsection;

(B) the academic year(s) within a legislative biennium for which the general academic teaching institution is requesting approval to use the non-resident tuition rate under this subsection;

(C) the primary physical address of the parent institution or off-campus educational site offering at least one off-campus degree program that is located within a 100-mile radius of the boundary of Texas with another state and at which the general academic teaching institution proposes to use the nonresident tuition rate under this subsection;

(D) the U.S. state or states, of which any portion is within a 135-mile radius of the parent institution or off-campus educational site provided under subparagraph (C) of this paragraph, to whose residents the institution proposes to apply the nonresident tuition rate under this subsection;

(E) an explanation of why offering a nonresident tuition rate under this subsection is in the best interest of the institution; and

(F) an explanation of why offering a nonresident tuition rate under this subsection will not cause unreasonable harm to any other institution of higher education, as defined by Texas Education Code, § 61.003, "Definitions."

(6) The Commissioner shall review the requested tuition rate and determine if it is in the best interest of the institution and whether it would cause harm to any other institution. The Commissioner may deny or approve, in whole or in part, an institution's request, and will communicate his or her decision in writing to the requesting institution within thirty (30) calendar days of the Coordinating Board's receipt of the institution's request. To the extent approved by the Commissioner, the institution shall utilize the nonresident tuition rate under this subsection for residents of the eligible state or states included in the Commissioner's approval during the academic year(s) stated in the approval. Requests must be approved by the Commissioner prior to offering or publishing an alternate nonresident tuition rate to eligible students by the institution.

(7) The nonresident tuition rate approved for a general academic teaching institution by the Coordinating Board under this subsection may not be less than $30 more than the resident tuition rate outlined in Texas Education Code, 54.051(c).

(8) The difference between the nonresident tuition rate set annually by the Coordinating Board, under subsection (c) of this section, and an alternate nonresident tuition rate approved under this subsection shall be reported by the institution as a waiver on relevant Coordinating Board data submissions.

(9) General academic teaching institutions who received Commissioner approval to offer a nonresident tuition rate under former § 21.2264 of this title (relating to General Academic Teaching Institutions Located within 100 Miles of the Texas Border) for the 2024 - 2025 academic year prior to August 31, 2024, may continue to offer the approved nonresident tuition rate in the 2024 - 2025 academic year to individuals who qualified and established eligibility pursuant to §21.2264 as it existed prior to repeal.

(10) If an individual received a nonresident tuition rate under former §21.2264 prior to the 2025 - 2026 academic year that was approved by the Commissioner, and is no longer eligible to receive the nonresident tuition rate based on this subsection, then the institution may continue to offer the nonresident tuition rate based on this subsection to that individual if that individual remains continuously enrolled and the institution has Commissioner approval to offer the nonresident tuition rate under this subsection for the applicable academic year.

(11) Paragraph (10) of this subsection expires at the end of 2029 - 2030 academic year.

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