UCLA Tuition 2026-2027
UC systemwide tuition for California residents is $15,588 for the 2026-2027 academic year. Non-residents pay $54,858 including Nonresident Supplemental Tuition.
Resident Tuition
$15,588
Non-Resident Tuition
$54,858
Year-over-year change: Resident tuition changed by +4.38%. Non-resident tuition changed by +4.42%.
What changed in 2026-2027
A new cohort locks in at $15,588
Students entering UCLA in fall 2026 pay $15,588 in UC systemwide tuition plus $842 in UCLA campus-based fees, and under the Tuition Stability Plan that tuition rate is locked for them for up to six years. Nonresident Supplemental Tuition reached $39,270, bringing a new nonresident undergraduate’s systemwide charges to $54,858.
The cohort structure is now fully visible on UCLA’s own cost pages, which publish five parallel budgets side by side. A student who started in 2022-23 still pays systemwide tuition of — and continues to be billed at — the rate set when they enrolled, while each newer class sits one rung higher. Five undergraduates in the same seminar can be paying five different tuitions.
UCLA cautions that these figures are not final: actual tuition and fees remain subject to change by the Regents, and approved 2026-27 levels may end up higher or lower than the amounts published for planning purposes.
What does that mean? UCLA tuition works out to roughly $58/day of instruction, or $1,039/class (assuming 15 classes per year).
At California's $16.90/hr minimum wage today, covering tuition alone would take 922 hours of work (~23 full-time weeks) — before housing and food.
Quick Facts
Resident Tuition
vs. 5 years earlier (2021-2022)
+$3,018
Resident tuition rose 24.01% from $12,570 to $15,588
vs. 10 years earlier (2016-2017)
+$3,294
Resident tuition rose 26.79% from $12,294 to $15,588
Non-Resident Tuition
vs. 5 years earlier (2021-2022)
+$12,534
Non-resident tuition rose 29.61% from $42,324 to $54,858
vs. 10 years earlier (2016-2017)
+$15,882
Non-resident tuition rose 40.75% from $38,976 to $54,858
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Figures and historical context for 2026-2027 are drawn from the following sources.
- UCLA Financial Aid & Scholarships: Cost of Attendance 2026-27(opens in a new tab)
- UC: Tuition Stability Plan(opens in a new tab)
- UCLA Registrar: Annual and Term Student Fees(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)