<p>2Leashes,</p>
<p>I don’t know if you caught the latest news about tuition in California, but the UC Regents recently announced a tuition increase of 32% for next year (ouch)–meaning that the cost differential between Indiana University and the UCs has narrowed considerably. </p>
<p>The new UC total cost of attendance is now around $29,800 versus IU-B’s cost to your daughter of $31,000. Also, this raises the question of which school will be increasing their tuition faster from year-to-year. California faces even tougher budget challenges next year, since the local K-12 schools will not be receiving the federal stimulus funds that made up approximately 14% of their budgets this year. Thus they will be demanding more money for the local K-12 schools–resulting in a continuing squeeze on funds going to the colleges.</p>
<p>In your daughter’s case, I wouldn’t be surprised if the total cost of a college degree at IU-B, even as an out-of-state student, actually ends up being less than the cost of a college degree at an in-state University of California branch (and that’s assuming that they keep all the UCs open). Some UC professors have previously suggested that they close some of the smaller UCs such as Riverside, Merced and UC Santa Cruz:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-san-diego/748052-23-ucsd-professors-suggest-university-california-shut-down-ucsc-ucr-ucm-2.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-california-san-diego/748052-23-ucsd-professors-suggest-university-california-shut-down-ucsc-ucr-ucm-2.html</a></p>