UC Tuition is Rising for Out of State Students
The University of California system is anticipating a budget gap of half a billion dollars in 2025. The UC Regents’ solution to this problem? Raising tuition for out of state students by nearly $3.5k a semester in the fall. At the same time, they are planning billions of dollars worth of construction projects. In-state students are charged tuition and a systemwide fee, while out of state students are charged that plus a supplemental fee. The supplemental fee is where students will feel the hit of the tuition hike. This increase will mean tuition for an out of state student attending a UC school in Fall 2025 will be $52k total. This gap is in part due to Governor Gavin Newsom going back on promises and cutting state support for the UC system.
Students should not have to pay an arm and a leg to get a college degree. Especially not when the reason their tuition is increasing is because the UC Regents are starting construction projects they don’t have the money for. Newsom going back on his promises is not something that students should have to subsidize. Additionally, UC administrators are still getting salary increases while they increase the price of tuition when they already earn $785,000 to nearly $1.2 million every year. UC administrators should have to subsidize their unbalanced budget, not students.
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