The Arizona Board of Regents approved special fees Thursday that increase some students' tuition by $26,000.
Some special fees apply to certain classes, such as life drawing, while others will apply to entire programs, such as the Golf Professional Training Program.
ASU President Michael Crow called many of the programs "exotic" and said the University needs cash to offer them.
Crow referred to the Aeronautical Management Technology program, which must pay for flight simulators and the use of a hangar. The proposed fee for the professional flight program is $550, and the fee for the air transportation management concentration is $250.
The largest fee, at $26,000, was applied to ASU's Executive MBA program.
The increased fees will affect several classes, including color photography, sculpture, computer imaging and animation, construction management, field geology and all independent learning courses.
The construction management fee will be increased from $100 to $140 and used to cover a mandatory exam all graduating seniors have to take.
The Golf Professional Training Program took the biggest hit in undergraduate fees, with proposed amounts ranging from $670 to $1,360 for different classes.
Regent Ernie Calderon provided the one voice of opposition.
"I think of the working student or the working parent who has seen a tuition increase last year, [and] tuition increase last month, and then a series of fees," he said. "I would be really buckling up for June, because what's next, a plague of locusts?"
Other graduate fees were applied to programs in nursing, architecture, design and environmental planning.
Reach the reporter at lindsay.butler@asu.edu.
