JACKSON — Students at Hinds Community College will be paying more this fall, after trustees voted Wednesday to increase tuition and meal plan costs.

College officials say the increases are necessary as the school is serving an unprecedented number of students while seeing its state funding cut.

Tuition for full-time students will be $980 per semester, an increase of $150. Part-time students will pay $100 per credit hour, an increase of $15 per credit hour.

In contrast, the cost for one academic hour at most of the state universities is about $200.

The last time Hinds raised tuition was in 2005.

Students living on campus in Raymond and Utica will also see their meal plan increase $150 a semester, to $920 for 19 meals a week.

Wednesday’s decision does not affect other community colleges.

In January, the Board of Trustees of the State Institutions of Higher Learning approved tuition increases between 4.5 and 9 percent at Mississippi’s eight public universities.

College board officials said the increase in university tuitions make up about 36 percent of budget shortfalls predicted for the coming school year. Institutions will address about $116.1 million of the expected $182.5 million shortfall in state appropriations through cuts, efficiencies and enrollment growth.

Hinds is the state’s largest community college with about 19,000 students enrolled annually at the main campus in Raymond and branches in Vicksburg, Utica, Pearl and Jackson.