<p>I went to the website of each UC and looked at the CA Resident Tuition for each.</p>
<p>UCSD - $7422.60
UCB - $7799.50
UCLA - $7143.23
UCI - $7513.50
UCSC - $7962.29
UCSB - $7882.92
UCD - $8323.16
UCR - $7317
UCM - $7424 </p>
<p>The fees includes the insurance fee...but I am surprised that UCLA has the lowest pricetag for tuition..interesting. and Davis has highest? wow</p>
<p>I feel so old. When I started CCC (during high school...alllll the way back in 2002), UCLA's fee was somewhere around 5000. If not less. </p>
<p>Blah.</p>
<p>Interesting info.</p>
<p>Citan, does this include all the other misc. fees associated with academics lik ethe academic enhancement fees we have and such?</p>
<p>it includes the misc. fees....I believe. Consult the respective Registrar websites if you want more info.</p>
<p>Nice find, Citan... I think it's admirable that UCLA actually charges the lowest tuition fees throughout the UC system, although the low tuition barely compensates for the relatively expensive housing fees. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>hm..lowest tuition, highest housing. haha</p>
<p>yes housing is pretty high at UCLA (considering it's in LA), but one can get past that and get cheaper alternatives...tuition you pretty much have to pay.</p>
<p>
In case you missed the recent "America's Priciest Dorms" article/thread, UCB actually holds the current title for most expensive housing, both within the UC system and nationally. They're truly up the creek when it comes to both tuition and housing fees combined. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>But even then, UCB (and UCLA and other UCs) are substantially less expensive than the privates unless one is getting good aid packages from the privates. This even though many of the UCs are ranked higher than many of the privates. All in all, not a bad deal - at least for California residents.</p>
<p>And the article is a very crude measure of anything, flopsy. Many students at Berkeley are paying substatially less for housing than the single "estimate" provided and used for the survey. Every person in a triple in the units pays less than 10,000, over 3,000 different than the estimate given. For every two triples, three doubles (which cost more) in the varying places (which vary in price) must exist to balance out the cost to make the average 13,000 or whatever they provided. The survey doesn't really say if the number is how much the average student living in university housing is paying (I hope it's trying to do this). The methodology of the survey (or how the estimate was deteremined, what it means) isn't really shown. In addition, student trends would tell a lot about what the average student pays in his or her time at an institution. For instance, at some schools it is almost unheard of to live off-campus other than during time studying abroad, but for some schools, very few students live on campus, even for one year.</p>
<p>Drab: not every person lives in a triple</p>
<p>It's "D*R*ab," and I'm very aware, Citan, but the estimate still seems high in part because of the cost of triples (and the estimate was last year's numbers, when triples cost even less) and the how the numbers would have to work out.</p>
<p>Ok, let's compare dorm living in Cal and UCLA....not suites/plazas. these are the latest figures.</p>
<p>UCLA</p>
<p>Double Min - $10,179
Double Max - $10,824</p>
<p>Triple Min - $8,899
Triple Max - $9,544</p>
<p>Cal</p>
<p>Double Min - $11,970<br>
Double Max - $13,300</p>
<p>Triple Min - $9,995
Triple Max - $11,285 </p>
<p>btw the Cal prices are for the most basic meal plan only...while UCLA's min is the most basic and max is the best one. Cal is still more expensive than UCLA's...so in that sense the businessweek rankings are correct.</p>
<p>I'm having trouble finding the prices of UCLA's housing on a UCLA website. Care to provide the link?</p>
<p>Citan: It's minimal, but you are comparing UCLA housing on your minimum meal plan. CAL's regular meal plan is the equivalent of approx 14/15 meals per week.
But what difference does all of this fee comparison make? Aren't there more important issues to argue and debate?
I'm proud to be able to say I rejected UCLA in favor of higher fees, more expensive but much nicer housing (as I sit and look out at the great view I have of San Francisco,) and most important, the fact I'm at CAL.</p>
<p>er...then why are you in here?</p>
<p>CA2006: um...what the hell are you talking about? did you even read my post or this thread? even at 19 meals/week UCLA is still cheaper. Think about where UCLA and Cal are located. UCLA is surrounded by millionaires in Beverly Hills, Westwood and Bel-Air. Cal is surrounded by the homeless.</p>
<p>the fact that you rejected UCLA for Cal doesn't really say or mean anything...tons of people reject Cal for UCLA...you do know that UCLA gets the highest number of applicants in the nation right? And what does "I'm at CAL" mean? Are you trying to say that UCLA is somehow inferior to Cal? If you are back it up with proof...otherwise remain in the Cal board.</p>
<p>bfired2: i occasionally check out the UCLA board for a good laugh.</p>
<p>i would've thought that students from a school of Cal's caliber would have something better to do with their time...or am i sensing some insecurity over your beloved Cal?</p>