Based on the governor’s proposed budget for higher education for next year, Boise State University Interim President Martin Schimpf estimates that BSU will likely be looking at raising tuition around 5.2 percent next year.

Schimpf told the Legislature’s budget-writing Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee, because the budget calls for a 3 percent increase in employee compensation with no fund shift to cover those costs, they will require a tuition increase of about 2 percent.

The Idaho Press reports, Schimpf told JFAC that BSU now serves more than 30,000 students, including a growing graduate student population of 3,500. He also praised Little’s proposal to boost the state’s Opportunity Scholarship fund by $7 million next year.

JFAC will set the budgets for state agencies, including higher education institutions, in the coming weeks.