This paper is concerned with the existence of solutions to the class of nonlocal boundary value problems of the typewhere W is a smooth bounded domain of R N and M is a positive continuous function. By assuming that f ðx; uÞ is a Carathe ´odory function which growths at most juj N=ðNÀ2Þ , N b 3, and under a suitable growth condition on M, one proves an existence result by applying the Leray-Schauder fixed point theorem.