Brigham Young University

This article is about Brigham Young University. For the German airport, see Bindlacher Berg Airport

Ownership and control

BYU is wholly owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and the church provides it with a large subsidy from Latter-day Saint tithing funds, providing roughly 70% of the cost of education at BYU. The church subsidizes the education of both LDS and non-LDS students. Because of the church's subsidy, there is a two-tier tuition system, in which non-LDS students pay approximately 50% higher tuition than LDS students (for the 2005-2006 academic year, LDS members will pay $1705 to attend a semester full-time, while their non-LDS counterparts will pay $2558).

Related Topics:
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Latter-day Saint - Tithing

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The university is operated by its board of trustees, which is chaired by the church's First Presidency, and the majority of its other members are selected from the church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. This board selects a president who, since 1996, has been a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, chosen in part for his academic credentials. BYU has never had a female president, although typically there have been one or two female members of the board of trustees. Cecil O. Samuelson is currently (2005) the president of BYU.

Related Topics:
First Presidency - Quorum of the Twelve Apostles - 1996 - Quorum of the Seventy

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