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UCLA's business graduate school plans to forego state funding | California Watch

UCLA's business graduate school plans to forego state funding | California Watch

UCLA's business graduate school plans to forego state funding

At a time when California's public universities are bemoaning the decline of state funding as a piece of their overall budgets, one highly ranked public graduate school is planning to forego state funding altogether in favor of greater flexibility.

Officials at UCLA's Anderson School of Management say forfeiting state funding would give the school more freedom to set fees and spend fee revenue. The plan – described by UCLA as financial self-sufficiency – woul