After previously proposing widespread and hefty tuition increases for graduate and professional degree programs, UC’s top administrators have retreated and will seek fee hikes affecting only a small group of graduate students, mainly in nursing, and at much reduced levels.
Only about 800 students in eight programs will be affected by a proposal expected to be approved by the UC regents later this month, officials said. Under a previous and now abandoned plan, about 14,000 graduate and professional school students in more than 50 programs such as law, medicine, social work and business faced tuition increases that met strong opposition from the governor and other officials in Sacramento.
In one of the most important changes, nursing students will probably face annual tuition hikes of $619, less than a quarter of the $2,700 they faced under the previous proposal. Nursing programs have lost some federal funding and must backfill with tuition, officials said.
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