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Few students will be on UC Berkeley'due south campus when instruction begins at the academy later this month. On Friday, the state released new guidance for Berkeley and other colleges equally they plan for the fall.

Courtesy of Berkeley.edu

Few students volition be on UC Berkeley'due south campus when teaching begins at the university afterwards this month. On Friday, the state released new guidance for Berkeley and other colleges as they plan for the fall.

Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the tuition nonresident students pay.

Ii Academy of California committees approved a program Thursday to enroll 10,000 more in-state freshman and transfer students in the next three years, a 12 pct increase.

In addition, UC tuition will remain frozen through the 2016-17 school year and volition likely increase in following years at the rate of inflation, or by nigh three pct annually, co-ordinate to the proposal that won unanimous back up from the committees of Long Range Planning and Finance during the UC Lath of Regents meeting in San Francisco. The total Board of Regents is expected to ratify the plan Fri.

This fall, UC admitted 61,824 freshman students from California and 20,921 transfer students from country community colleges.

"We at UC want to expand the number of Californians who attend our universities and nosotros want to sustain that access," said UC President Janet Napolitano, who put forth the proposal before this calendar month.

The tuition freeze means at that place will be six years – dating back to 2011-12 – without an increase. "Afterwards that, tuition will be modest, predictable and tied to inflation," Napolitano said.

"What we did today is expand the dream of going to higher," said land Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson.

Napolitano said the move to increment in-state enrollment volition help begin reversing several years of enrollment cuts and freezes for California students every bit the system added a higher number of out-of-state and international students, who paid more in tuition to help first land budget cuts. In-state undergraduate students currently pay a base tuition of $12,240 annually, while nonresident students pay $37,456.

"What we did today is aggrandize the dream of going to college," said state Superintendent of Public Didactics Tom Torlakson, an ex officio UC regent. "For many students, that dream includes going to the University of California."

Under the plan, the number of undergraduate California students volition increase by five,000 for the 2016-17 schoolhouse year, and past 2,500 students in each of the 2017-18 and 2018-19 school years. The number of boosted students admitted by each campus will be determined by the number of applications schools receive, their overall chapters and other factors, officials said.

The plan will exist funded primarily through $25 million that was allocated to boost enrollment under last year's state upkeep agreement, and by phasing out financial aid that the system provides for depression-income students from exterior California, which will relieve the system at least $fourteen one thousand thousand annually beginning in 2016-17. The number of nonresident students besides will steadily decline each twelvemonth, beginning next fall.

The university arrangement will request an additional $6 million in state funding to enroll 600 more graduate students in 2016-17, officials said.

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