From Delaware Online:

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Tuition and fees for in-state undergraduate students at the University of Delaware will increase by about $430 next school year – the lowest percent increase in about a decade, university officials said today.

The 3.7 percent increase brings UD’s in-state tuition and mandatory fees to $12,112 for the 2013-2014 school year. Out-of-state students will pay $1,160 more, bringing tuition and fees to about $29,932 – an increase of 4 percent. Graduate students at UD will pay $1,578 per credit hour, an increase of 4.25 percent, which is $65 more per credit hour.

The tuition rates for in-state and out-of-state students were announced this afternoon. The university waits each year until after the state’s budget is approved to announce tuition rates. Those costs were approved by the university board of trustees earlier this summer, but they only announced dorm and dining hall costs at that meeting. The cost of living in campus housing and eating in dining halls varies based on why type of dorm or meal plan a student selects. The costs for “standard” housing and dining is about $11,200.

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It does boggle my mind though- when I went to University of Delaware, tuition ranged between 7k to 9k a year...pretty crazy that just four years later it's now 12k for in-state, 29k for out-of-state. It's still not quite as ridiculous as what it costs to go to Penn State, but still.

University of Delaware has been on this decades-long building binge, which to me explains why the tuition is going up so high...I did notice that this year's increase was smaller than in year's past, so hopefuly it'll stay steady. I do think that if/when college enrollments in the country start to decrease, UD is sooo screwed.