Schools
UC Fees Skyrocket Another 9.6 Percent to $13,000 a Year
The raise Thursday adds onto an 8 percent hike passed earlier in the year, adding up to double what they were in 2005.
Bay City News
The University of California Board of Regents today approved a 9.6 percent tuition increase for graduate and undergraduate students at UC schools.
Despite passionate objections by several board members, the board approved the tuition hike in response to $650 million in state funding cuts.
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The increase will bring annual undergraduate tuition to $11,220 -- or more than $13,000 once fees are tacked on. However, it will only affect about 55 percent of current students -- mostly those whose families make more than $80,000 per year -- because of financial aid structures.
The higher tuition will only make up about 26 percent of the lost
state funds. The board also plans to make cuts to campus services and increase its number of out-of-state and international students, who pay higher tuition than California residents.
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Board members criticized the state for cutting higher education
funding.
"If Gov. Brown and our legislators continue on this path of always putting us on the chopping block, they are risking a legacy of presiding over the demise of higher education in our state," Regent Bonnie Reiss said.
The tuition increase comes days after California State University
raised tuition by 12 percent.
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