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Omg...😡

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/22415

For UCSF
Current tuition is $26,397
Mid-Year fee increase proposal: $26,639
2010-2011 tuition proposal: $30,594 😱
2011-2012 tuition proposal: $33,122 😱😱
2012-2013 tuition proposal: $35,877 😱😱😱

Similar fashion for UCSD (slightly cheaper, but barely).

This is horrible...I am broke enough already...
 
Just saw it on FB, almost fell off my chair. :scared:
 
holy smokes, so much for being a public school. that's basically how much it costs to go to a private school.

i too fell out of my chair seeing those tuition rates. when is this madness going to stop?!!
 
I assume this is out of state, right? Many schools have that tuition.
If it's in state, holy cow.
 
What do you expect with the state of California being in debt.

Atleast you still have happy cows.

rycetrix said:
Omg...😡

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/22415

For UCSF
Current tuition is $26,397
Mid-Year fee increase proposal: $26,639
2010-2011 tuition proposal: $30,594 😱
2011-2012 tuition proposal: $33,122 😱😱
2012-2013 tuition proposal: $35,877 😱😱😱

Similar fashion for UCSD (slightly cheaper, but barely).

This is horrible...I am broke enough already...
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It's outrageous for undergraduate, too.

But hey, you're going to be rollin' in dough after you graduate from UCSF CoP right!? What's a few more thousand bucks of loans!??!

Stop welfare, don't throw the state's budget crisis down the throat of people trying to better their lives. Punish the losers on the government teet. Why punish people trying to better their lives?

Man, this state makes me really mad sometimes.

Doesn't help that along with this fee hike, the Regents board decided to give themselves raises and bonuses. Good times. Interesting how that was left out of the article...
 
I went to a private school for undergrad, however, we received the same letter each year basically stating:

This year we will be raising tuition by $1000 each semester. Keep in mind that BU is still 20% under the national average for the cost of a private education yada yada yada.

When I started BU it was $12K per year. It is now $27K per year.
 
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Good lord $35k for UC professional fees 😱

Undergrad fee is still a steal ($10k for a top 50 degree? sign me up! people 3x that much for a degree from an inferior institution).

Besides, if your family holds down <$70k in CA (practically poverty in some counties), you get a fee-free ride through UC. Plus, not everyone has to go to UC. Even at $15k, people will be busting down the doors to get in. If you can't afford it, go to a CSU or CC, tuition is $26/unit. I hate when people complain about that too...shoot, I was going to take a spanish class at CC here in PA but it was $126+ a unit....for community college! No thanks.
 
My favorite line on the whole webpage? "Fees are subject to change without notice."

Nothing better than getting a bill in the mail that is substantially more than you were planning on!

And I agree w/flyer- $15,000/year in professional fees is outrageous. It makes me remember when my alma mater added a $500/year professional fee during my last year (and I'm not that old)- we thought that was an unprecedented abuse of power.
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/us/21tuition.html

I am not surprised. 30-something% increase is RIDICULOUS, even with the budget problems.

Reminds me, the Mayor of Pittsburgh is trying to instill a "privilege" tax to all college students - paying for the privilege of being in Pittsburgh or whatever. How ridiculous is that! If this passes, Pittsburgh will be the first (and at the moment the only) city that taxes this. Hey, maybe if it does follow, CA will follow suit!

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_652810.html
 
This has been happening all over the country for the last six or seven years. The increases have been gradual, but just as severe. Welcome to the rest of the world, California.
 
Passion4Sci said:
It's outrageous for undergraduate, too.

But hey, you're going to be rollin' in dough after you graduate from UCSF CoP right!? What's a few more thousand bucks of loans!??!

Stop welfare, don't throw the state's budget crisis down the throat of people trying to better their lives. Punish the losers on the government teet. Why punish people trying to better their lives?

Man, this state makes me really mad sometimes.

Doesn't help that along with this fee hike, the Regents board decided to give themselves raises and bonuses. Good times. Interesting how that was left out of the article...
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I am glad I am not the only person who finds California to be one of the country's most frustrating states.
 
desklamp said:
I am glad I am not the only person who finds California to be one of the country's most frustrating states.
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frustratingly beautiful.

i dunno...i love complaining (traffic, high income taxes, etc...), but then when I go out of state, I will defend my home all the way. Heck, I miss sitting in traffic in my car...beats sitting on a smelly bus or walking the smelly streets of philly.
 
i presume that the salary will increase as well. "inflation"
 
pharmRxn said:
i presume that the salary will increase as well. "inflation"
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It's wonderful to hypothesize about salary increases, but in the meantime we, UC students, are personally affected and faced with a drowning increase in our already disturbingly large student loans. 🙁

I don't know how more broke I can possibly get, I already skimp on buying food, never eat out and go out maybe once a month. 🙁 The prospect of thousands of dollars adding up to my loan is truly frightening.
 
pharmRxn said:
i presume that the salary will increase as well. "inflation"
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i'm hoping for inflation catch-up once i graduate...my loans & mortgages are fixed while inflation would carry my salary higher. Factor in that I don't have that much saved relatively speaking, and inflation will do wonders to my bottom line in the near term despite higher costs of goods/services.

can't say the same for when those loans extinguish and i have a ton of $$ stashed away in my later years. based on the inflation curve over the past few years and where it should be historically, i just might get my wish. we'll see.
 
twester said:
This has been happening all over the country for the last six or seven years. The increases have been gradual, but just as severe. Welcome to the rest of the world, California.
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Um. All over the country? If what you're saying is true, then other state schools must have about $35k tuition per year for in-state residents after small increases over the past years. Oh but wait, Maryland's SOP (for example) has tuition at only $16k for in-state residents, including auxiliary fees. Out-of-state is $31k including auxiliary fees. There is something wrong when a school's in-state tuition is more than another state's out-of-state tuition. It beats the purpose of having a state institution, in my opinion.

UC schools were my top choice, but now... I dunno. I really don't want to graduate with over 200k loans, which is what will happen if these tuition hikes occur.
 
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busyizzy said:
UC schools were my top choice, but now... I dunno. I really don't want to graduate with over 200k loans, which is what will happen if these tuition hikes occur.
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well, there's only two of them...brings them in line with the other schools in the state that are $30k+
 
busyizzy said:
Um. All over the country? If what you're saying is true, then other state schools must have about $35k tuition per year for in-state residents after small increases over the past years. Oh but wait, Maryland's SOP (for example) has tuition at only $16k for in-state residents, including auxiliary fees. Out-of-state is $31k including auxiliary fees. There is something wrong when a school's in-state tuition is more than another state's out-of-state tuition. It beats the purpose of having a state institution, in my opinion.

UC schools were my top choice, but now... I dunno. I really don't want to graduate with over 200k loans, which is what will happen if these tuition hikes occur.
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I'm saying that tuition expressed as a percentage has increased at public schools all over the country as state budgets get tighter and tighter. Tuition at CU School of Pharmacy has increased about 10% per year for every year I've been there. The same is true at UW. And now a 32% increase at UCSF.

UCSF has always been an expensive school with a relatively stable tuition schedule. The increase is sudden and shocking rather than gradual and insidious.

I stand by my original post.
 
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Well, they gotta pay for the 1 billion dollar a year construction projects and pay the highest pensions in the state - half a million a year just for two people? Abusrd!

Construction instead of instruction? Even Harvard suspended its construction projects to maintain its quality of education. Not so with UCSF, who is cutting back library hours, cutting classes, and increasing class room size.

Guess all those suites couldn't see their how phony pension bonds would belly up. Better have gotten an education elsewhere. Can't wait for those erected monuments and egomaniacs to go boom. God help the little people.
 
Might help if we didn't stifle our own funds in California with stupid citizen-run propositions like the wondrous bullet train crap, Prop M I think it was.

What a waste.
 
that is absurd. although i feel that i would have had an excellent shot at ucsf i couldn't justify paying the out of state tuition for a career that pays between 90-120k especially when the in-state tuition at UF is 14k/year!
 
Last night at Thanksgiving...

Me: Hey uncle... how are things going over there in Cali?
Uncle: Man... I really need to get out of Berkeley.
 
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