NORTHRIDGE : CSUN Students Face Record Fees in Fall
Cal State Northridge students, who have seen the annual cost of attending the university full-time rise from $936 to $1,148 over the last two years, face a record payment this year.
Fall semester fees of $574 were due Thursday and another payment for about $200 will be assessed later this summer when the Legislature agrees on a state budget.
Together, the increases will raise the annual fee for attending the school to $1,520. The escalating fees come at the same time as CSUN and the other Cal State campuses are cutting thousands of classes to save money, prompting complaints from students that California’s “free” college education is becoming prohibitively expensive.
Statewide, about 6% of the students accepted for enrollment in 20 CSU campuses last fall dropped out, many because of a 20% fee hike imposed at the time, CSU officials said.
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