Tuition for the 2012-2013 year will be $42,500, a 3.8% increase from the 2011-2012 year, announced Barbara Feiner, vice chancellor for finance on Thursday.

Washington University’s most recent tuition increase of 4.2 percent, from $37,800 for the 2009-2010 academic year to $39,400 for the 2010-2011 academic year, is expected to be right on par with the rest of the nation’s universities.

A letter to the parents of Washington University students explaining the tuition increase for the 2010-2011 academic year.

In the face of yet another tuition hike even as the economy slides into a recession, students will find it harder than ever to fund their Wash. U. education in the coming school year. This year, many private universities saw their pool of applicants shrink as many prospective students instead applied to public universities in [...]