Registration Rates & Information

Rates

All rates below except undergraduate student rates increased $25 after April 9.

Member

Type

In Conference Hotel/Chicago Resident

In Other Hotel

Professional

$210

$270

Grad Student/Retiree

$120

$140

Non-Member

Professional

$297

$357

Professional Outside Field

$210

$270

Grad Student/Retiree

$162

$182

Undergraduate Student

$40

Registration rates are determined by

your membership status
when you register, and
where you book your hotel (except if you live within a 50-miles radius of Chicago).

Why registration is higher if you do not book a conference hotel.

When the MPSA negotiates a contract with a conference hotel, the association receives free meeting space in exchange for a guarantee that it will use a specific number of sleeping rooms. If attendees do not use the required number of sleeping rooms, the MPSA must pay the cost for these unused rooms, which could amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars. In addition, the more sleeping rooms that conference attendees use, the more attractive the MPSA conference becomes to a hotel, and the MPSA can negotiate even lower room rates. In essence, the attendees who stay outside the conference hotels are "free riders."