Some hard lessons about college costs

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<p>1985 UC fees were:</p>

<p>$1,326 ($2,820 CPI adjusted) in-state
$5,142 ($10,492 CPI adjusted) out-of-state</p>

<p>2011 UC fees were:</p>

<p>$13,181 in-state
$36,059 out-of-state</p>

<p>(does not include housing, books, incidentals, which could raise the out-of-state list price cost to over $50,000)</p>

<p><a href=“http://budget.ucop.edu/fees/documents/history_fees.pdf[/url]”>http://budget.ucop.edu/fees/documents/history_fees.pdf&lt;/a&gt; (note: the first page of “mandatory student charge levels” is not the full amount of fees; look at pages 2 and 3 for the in-state and out-of-state undergraduate fees)</p>