UCLA Tuition 2013-2014
UC systemwide tuition for California residents was $12,192 for the 2013-2014 academic year. Non-residents paid $35,070 including Nonresident Supplemental Tuition. Campus-based fees averaged $1,030 across UC.
Resident Tuition
$12,192
Non-Resident Tuition
$35,070
Campus Fees (UC average)
$1,030
What changed in 2013-2014
Brown trades a multi-year freeze for state funding
Resident tuition again held at $11,160 and Nonresident Supplemental Tuition again at $22,878. Total resident charges rose 0.2 percent; campus-based fees reached $1,030.
In May 2013 Governor Brown's May Revise proposed a four-year tuition freeze at UC and CSU alongside a roughly 20 percent general fund increase over four years. UC's own later accounting described the bargain precisely: after Proposition 30 passed, the Governor committed to base budget adjustments of 5 percent in 2013-14 and 2014-15 and 4 percent in 2015-16 and 2016-17, but made that money contingent on no tuition and fee increases across the four years.
What rose instead were charges the freeze did not cover. In March 2013 the Regents voted to extend the $60 per-student surcharge funding the Kashmiri and Luquetta settlements through 2017-18, over objections from a regent and the student regent. That July they approved an 8 percent supplemental tuition increase for nursing students at UCLA and three other campuses.
2013-2014 tuition in 2025 dollars
Comparing tuition across decades only works once inflation is stripped out. Adjusted with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index, the $12,192 a California resident paid in 2013-2014 is equivalent to $16,849 in 2025 dollars. Non-resident tuition of $35,070 works out to $48,466 in 2025 dollars.
Resident tuition in 2025 dollars
$16,849
Non-resident tuition in 2025 dollars
$48,466
Inflation adjustment uses CPI-U annual average, U.S. city average, all items (1982-84=100). The 2025 annual average is computed from eleven months because the October 2025 index was never collected during the federal funding lapse.
What does that mean? UCLA tuition worked out to roughly $45/day of instruction, or $813/class (assuming 15 classes per year).
At California's $8.00/hr minimum wage back then, covering tuition alone would take 1,524 hours of work (~38 full-time weeks) — before housing and food.
Quick Facts
Resident Tuition
vs. 5 years earlier (2008-2009)
+$5,066
Resident tuition rose 71.09% from $7,126 to $12,192
vs. 10 years earlier (2003-2004)
+$7,208
Resident tuition rose 144.62% from $4,984 to $12,192
Non-Resident Tuition
vs. 5 years earlier (2008-2009)
+$7,336
Non-resident tuition rose 26.45% from $27,734 to $35,070
vs. 10 years earlier (2003-2004)
+$15,876
Non-resident tuition rose 82.71% from $19,194 to $35,070
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Sources
Figures and historical context for 2013-2014 are drawn from the following sources.
- Daily Bruin: Brown's May Revise includes funding increase, four-year tuition freeze(opens in a new tab)
- Regents Nov. 2014 item F1 (describes the Prop 30 multi-year funding plan)(opens in a new tab)
- Daily Bruin: Regents vote to continue $60 tuition surcharge (March 14, 2013)(opens in a new tab)
- UCOP Historical Fee Levels, Tables 1-3(opens in a new tab)
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, CPI-U annual averages (CUUR0000SA0)(opens in a new tab)
- California Department of Industrial Relations, History of California Minimum Wage(opens in a new tab)