Why does the UW offer fee-based degrees?
Fee-based degree programs provide another mechanism for the UW to provide access to its many resources. Because the state cannot afford to provide assistance for all of the academic programs designed by the schools and colleges at the UW, fee-based degree programs and individual credit classes were developed that are funded entirely by student fees. These non-state-funded programs take advantage of the resources of the UW including the wide array of faculty, the robust technical and capital infrastructures, and the brand of the UW. Though paying for these resources, these programs would not be able to offer the quality nor the wide range of content without the existing capabilities of the UW, which the state partially funds.
