by Ahmed Fayad, staff writer
On Nov. 19 the UC Regents Committee passed an increased enrollment and increased tuition price for the next five years.
Tuition in UC schools will rise 5 percent per year for five years. University’s governing body approved a tuition increase; changing from their original plan seven to plan two. Plan two would increase resident system wide fees in 2015 to 2016 by $612, from $12,192 to $12,804 in order to accept more students.
“I don’t like the fact that the UC system is raising prices for students who for the most part, have taken on loans and will have to pay much more than they make at the time,” said Fransico Valladares (’15).
In addition, undergraduate tuition and fees for California residents would rise from $12,192 a year to as much as $15,560 by the years 2019 to 2020. Normally, out-of-state students would have to pay more than $35,000 in tuition and fees, however this new increased tuition would now go to nearly $45,000.
Courtesy of Danny Moloshok
During the recession, California cut support for the university system by $1 billion a year, making tuition rise 60 percent after inflation. This caused more students to take loans from banks in order to pay for tuition.
“I think the effect of UC costs going up is going to cause less and less people able to go to college and more and more people in debt,” Monica Thomsen (15) said.
However, the growing economy expanding state support has rebounded partly in the last two years and now supplies $2.8 billion of the university system’s nearly $7 billion core operating budget. This allowed UC officials to increase tuition and enroll 5,000 more California students over the next five years into their schools.
“As far as I am concerned, the quality of education they give is still at the same level and although prices have gone up for resources, these colleges make more than enough per student,” said Valladares.
