The base rate applies to the following colleges and majors:
- Applied Health Sciences: All majors
- Education: All majors
- Media: All majors except Journalism, Advertising and Computer Science & Advertising
- Division of General Studies All majors except Pre-Engineering)PREP)
- Agricultural, Consumer, & Environmental Sciences: All majors except Animal Sciences, Food Science & Human Nutrition, Technical Systems Management, Agricultural & Biological Engineering, Crop Sciences, Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, Agricultural & Consumer Economics, Computer Science & Crop Sciences and Computer Science & Animal Sciences
- Liberal Arts & Sciences: All majors except
- Chemistry and Life Sciences majors: Biochemistry, Chemistry, Biology, Integrative Biology, and Molecular & Cellular Biology
- Engineering-related majors: Chemical Engineering, Math & Computer Science, Statistics & Computer Science, Physics, Computer Science & Anthropology, Computer Science & Astronomy, Computer Science & Chemistry, Computer Science & Economics, Computer Science and Geography/Geographic Information Science, Computer Science & Linguistics and Computer Science & Philosophy
- School of Social Work All majors
Students who enter the University Fall 2011 or later and take MCB 250, 251, 252, 253, or 450 are responsible for additional course-based tuition of $300 per course unless they are already paying differential tuition during the term of course enrollment.
Flat Tuition Rate
| Resident | Non-Resident | LAS International | Other International | |
| For students entered Summer 2020 to Spring 2021 | $1,532 | $3,713 | $4,012 | $3,825 |
| For students entered Summer 2019 to Spring 2020 | $1,505 | $3,648 | $3,944 | $3,757 |
| For students entered Summer 2018 to Spring 2019 | $1,505 | $3,576 | $3,873 | $3,873 |
| For students entered Summer 2016 to Spring 2018 | $1,505 | $3,520 | $3,627 | $3,627 |
| For students entered Summer 2015 to Spring 2016 | $1,505 | $3,458 | $3,563 | $3,563 |
| For students entered before Summer 2015 and all Base rate non-degree students | $1,379 | $3,342 | $3,641 | $3,453 |