How much will California residents pay in tuition and/or fees to attend the States public colleges and universities as full-time undergraduate students? What about non-residents?
California residents pay only what are considered “fees” to attend the State’s public colleges and universities; they do not pay “tuition.” Only non-California residents pay “tuition” to attend the State’s public colleges and universities. In actuality, this distinction has become less important since the early 1990s. Fees are generally defined as charges to cover the indirect costs associated with college attendance, while tution is defined as also including direct instructional costs. As resident student fee levels have risen, so has the use of revenue. Revenues from systemwide resident fees now are used as a general-purpose fund source for the higher education systems and are used to cover all the costs associated with the institution’s operation. Current and historic fees are posted on the Commission’s Fiscal Snapshots page. A variety of additional information can be found in the Topical Listing of the Reports section.
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