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Berkeley Tuition Now Higher Than Harvard’s For Nearly a Third of Entering Students « Student Activism

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Berkeley Tuition Now Higher Than Harvard’s For Nearly a Third of Entering Students

If you enrolled in the University of California at Berkeley this fall, and you weren’t a California resident, you paid more in tuition than you would have if you had gone to Harvard.

That’s not a joke, or a misprint. Berkeley, a public university, now charges its out-of-state attendees more in tuition every semester than Harvard. Harvard full-time tuition is $36,303 a year and Berkeley out-of state is $37,338.50. Choose Harvard instead of Berkeley, and you’ll save enough to buy a top-of-the-line iPad. With a data plan.

“But that’s just out-of-state students!” I hear you cry. “The University of California is a state university, serving the people of the state of California! Out-of-state tuition should be higher!”

Well, yeah. Fair enough. But in-state tuition at Berkeley is now brushing up against fifteen grand, and even at