UCLA Tuition 2023-2024
UC systemwide tuition for California residents was $13,752 for the 2023-2024 academic year. Non-residents paid $46,326 including Nonresident Supplemental Tuition. Campus-based fees averaged $1,628 across UC.
Resident Tuition
$13,752
Non-Resident Tuition
$46,326
Campus Fees (UC average)
$1,628
Year-over-year change: Resident tuition changed by +4.95%. Non-resident tuition changed by +4.98%.
What changed in 2023-2024
Cohort tuition: only the incoming class pays more
By 2023-24 UC no longer had a single undergraduate tuition rate. Under the Tuition Stability Plan the Regents approved on July 22, 2021, effective fall 2022, tuition is set once for each entering class and then held flat for that cohort for up to six years. So this year's increase applied only to new students.
UC's official schedule lists three tiers. Students first enrolled in 2023-24 paid $12,522 in tuition, a $1,230 Student Services Fee and, if nonresident, $32,574 in supplemental tuition. The 2022-23 cohort still paid $11,928, $1,176 and $31,026. And cohorts first enrolled in 2021-22 or earlier still paid $11,442, $1,128 and $29,754 — the same rates set back in 2017-18.
The entering class therefore paid $594 more tuition, about 5 percent, than the class one year ahead of it, and entering nonresidents paid $1,548 more. A continuing student saw no increase at all. Blended across cohorts, average resident charges rose 4.95 percent.
2023-2024 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 $13,752 a California resident paid in 2023-2024 is equivalent to $14,530 in 2025 dollars. Non-resident tuition of $46,326 works out to $48,947 in 2025 dollars.
Resident tuition in 2025 dollars
$14,530
Non-resident tuition in 2025 dollars
$48,947
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 $51/day of instruction, or $917/class (assuming 15 classes per year).
At California's $15.50/hr minimum wage back then, covering tuition alone would take 887 hours of work (~22 full-time weeks) — before housing and food.
Quick Facts
Resident Tuition
vs. 5 years earlier (2018-2019)
+$1,182
Resident tuition rose 9.4% from $12,570 to $13,752
vs. 10 years earlier (2013-2014)
+$1,560
Resident tuition rose 12.8% from $12,192 to $13,752
Non-Resident Tuition
vs. 5 years earlier (2018-2019)
+$4,764
Non-resident tuition rose 11.46% from $41,562 to $46,326
vs. 10 years earlier (2013-2014)
+$11,256
Non-resident tuition rose 32.1% from $35,070 to $46,326
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Sources
Figures and historical context for 2023-2024 are drawn from the following sources.
- UCOP 2023-24 Tuition and Fee Levels (three-cohort table)(opens in a new tab)
- UCOP 2022-23 Tuition and Fee Levels (comparison cohort)(opens in a new tab)
- UC: Tuition Stability Plan(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)