UCLA Tuition 2024-2025
UC systemwide tuition for California residents was $14,436 for the 2024-2025 academic year. Non-residents paid $48,636 including Nonresident Supplemental Tuition. Campus-based fees averaged $1,726 across UC.
Resident Tuition
$14,436
Non-Resident Tuition
$48,636
Campus Fees (UC average)
$1,726
Year-over-year change: Resident tuition changed by +4.97%. Non-resident tuition changed by +4.99%.
What changed in 2024-2025
Regents hit new nonresidents with a 9.9% increase
For the entering class, tuition rose to $13,146 plus a $1,290 Student Services Fee, giving mandatory charges of $14,436. Continuing cohorts kept their own locked rates, so the increase reached only new students.
The bigger move landed on nonresidents. In November 2024 the Regents approved a $3,402 increase in Nonresident Supplemental Tuition — about 9.9 percent — taking it to $37,602 for nonresidents first enrolling in 2025-26. It was by far the largest such jump in years; the previous increase had been $762. UC was facing a budget gap it put at more than $500 million.
UCLA students objected at the Regents' public comment session. USAC's external vice president said students "are already struggling to have our basic needs met," and a third-year student warned the increase would "make the UC system inaccessible to international students and out-of-state students." One regent voted no and two abstained. Average campus-based fees across UC reached $1,726.
2024-2025 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 $14,436 a California resident paid in 2024-2025 is equivalent to $14,816 in 2025 dollars. Non-resident tuition of $48,636 works out to $49,916 in 2025 dollars.
Resident tuition in 2025 dollars
$14,816
Non-resident tuition in 2025 dollars
$49,916
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 $53/day of instruction, or $962/class (assuming 15 classes per year).
At California's $16.00/hr minimum wage back then, covering tuition alone would take 902 hours of work (~23 full-time weeks) — before housing and food.
Quick Facts
Resident Tuition
vs. 5 years earlier (2019-2020)
+$1,866
Resident tuition rose 14.84% from $12,570 to $14,436
vs. 10 years earlier (2014-2015)
+$2,244
Resident tuition rose 18.41% from $12,192 to $14,436
Non-Resident Tuition
vs. 5 years earlier (2019-2020)
+$6,312
Non-resident tuition rose 14.91% from $42,324 to $48,636
vs. 10 years earlier (2014-2015)
+$13,566
Non-resident tuition rose 38.68% from $35,070 to $48,636
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Sources
Figures and historical context for 2024-2025 are drawn from the following sources.
- Daily Bruin: UC Board of Regents recommends tuition increase for out-of-state students (Nov. 13, 2024)(opens in a new tab)
- CalMatters: UC regents raise tuition for out-of-state students (Nov. 14, 2024)(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)