Tuition at Hawaii's public university system will go up starting next year under a plan approved Wednesday. The University of Hawaii Board of Regents voted 9-3 to approve increases officials unveiled in August. Full-time students at the flagship Manoa campus will see a tuition increase of 35 percent over the next five years. For the 2012-13 school year, resident undergraduate tuition will increase $132 per semester at Manoa, $120 for UH Hilo and $60 at community colleges. UH West Oahu's tuition would go up $228 per semester in the first year because the new campus faces start-up costs that more established campuses don't have, university officials said. Under the plan, tuition at Manoa next year will go from $8,400 to $8,664. Tuition at UH Hilo will go from $5,640 to $5,880. By the 2016-17 school year, resident undergraduate tuition will be $11,376 at UH Manoa and $7,656 at UH Hilo.
