The government has issued the regulation about the enactment of a single tuition fee based on the socio-economic conditions of each student since 2013. All public university needs to create a formulation that can be used to categorize astudent into which cost group. The result of the data collection found that the parameters used to determine the classification of tuition fees between one universities with another are different. In this research, taken in sampling of student data at one public university database. Before classifying, the atribute of dataset was selected using correlation based feature selection (CFS. The classifier hath has been used in this study is support vector machine (SVM).