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Students at the University of Alberta may be paying extra to live on campus next academic year and international students could again be paying more to study at Alberta’s oldest and largest university.

The university’s finance committee voted 6-2 Tuesday for an across-the-board four per cent increase to residence rates effective Sept. 8.

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It also approved a 3.14 per cent hike to international tuition by the same voting margin. A board of governors meeting will vote on both motions March 16.

Graduate Students’ Association president Babak Soltannia and Students Union president Marina Banister were the two dissenting votes on both motions.

Pointing to increasing financial pressures, the finance committee heard that residence services and dining services were both losing money and the hike is needed to stem the red ink.

“Clearly, we have a problem that we are now starting to come to grips with,” U of A vice-president of finance and administration Gitta Kulczycki told the committee.