Four years at a UC costs a California resident about…
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Four years at a UC costs a California resident about $158,600. Two years at a community college living at home, then two at the UC, costs about $81,900
Source: Tuition and fees from IPEDS 2023, in-district at public two-year colleges and in-state by university system. Cost of attendance from the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, June 2026 release, cost data year 2024. Median per system.
Tool: Python, with pandas and matplotlib.
Method: The community-college figure is the median published in-district tuition and fees across California's 102 public two-year colleges, $1,288 a year. The university figures are medians across the campuses in each system: 15 CSU campuses at $7,602 tuition and $14,047 of housing, food and everything else, and 9 UC campuses at $14,560 and $25,105. Four years on campus is four of each. The transfer route is two years of community-college tuition plus two years of the university's full cost of attendance.
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Source: Tuition and fees from IPEDS 2023, in-district at public two-year colleges and in-state by university system. Cost of attendance from the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard, June 2026 release, cost data year 2024. Median per system.
Tool: Python, with pandas and matplotlib.
Method: The community-college figure is the median published in-district tuition and fees across California's 102 public two-year colleges, $1,288 a year. The university figures are medians across the campuses in each system: 15 CSU campuses at $7,602 tuition and $14,047 of housing, food and everything else, and 9 UC campuses at $14,560 and $25,105. Four years on campus is four of each. The transfer route is two years of community-college tuition plus two years of the university's full cost of attendance.
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