The 2026-27 Budget: California State University

Feb 24, 2026 - Almost 90  percent of this increase ($176  million) is due to the planned rise in CSU ’s tuition charges. Tuition charges are set at $6,838 for resident undergraduate students in 2026 ‑27, reflecting a $388 increase from 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5142

The 2026-27 Budget: University of California

Feb 26, 2026 - UC Tuition Charges and State Support Historically Move in Opposite Directions. For most of the past 30 years, neither the state nor UC had a tuition policy. Partly as a result, changes in tuition charges tended to move contrary to changes in state General Fund support.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5143

The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 17, 2026 - The measure does not specify how the funds are to be allocated among these specific purposes. In addition to this state bond, voters in the same election approved 14 local general oblig ation bonds totaling $9.9  billion for community college facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5159

The 2026-27 Budget: Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education

Mar 25, 2026 - Like other regulatory agencies, BPPE charges fees to the entities it oversees and deposits the revenues into a special fund that supports its operations. BPPE ’s special fund has a longstanding structural deficit, with expenditures exceeding revenues annually since 2014-15.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5169

The 2025-26 Budget: California State Library

Mar 7, 2025 - For example, the law library could charge state department users an annual service fee based on their usage of law library services, or it could assess specific charges for certain types of requests.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5013

The 2025-26 Budget: College of the Law, San Francisco

Mar 10, 2025 - The state is facing projected deficits the next few years, has no plan as to how it would maintain the higher level of spending for the school moving forward, and, typically, the state reduces, rather than increases, spending when facing deficits.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5014

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - To Leverage Federal Funding, Charge Enrollment Fees and Education ‑Related Fees. We recommend charging incarcerated students the statutory enrollment fee ($46 per unit). Similarly, we recommended charging incarcerated students for their textbooks.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2026-27 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 5, 2026 - With CSU and UC set to raise tuition charges in 2026 ‑27, each segment will generate hundreds of millions of dollars in new tuition revenue. This additional revenue will allow each segment to cover some of its spending priorities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5112

Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025

Dec 10, 2025 - The new framework goes beyond the GI 2025 objectives of increasing graduation rates and closing equity gaps by adding new objectives and several new metrics. One  notable new objective is ensuring all students are able to graduate with a first career job or pathway to graduate education.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5099

The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 17, 2026 - For Cal Grant recipients (who already have their tuition, and, in some cases, a portion of their nontuition costs covered), MCS provides ad ditional aid for nontuition costs. Though less notable given relative magnitude, the revamped program also expanded eligibility to CCC students in bachelor ’s degree programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127