Appendix AA74: Reduced Nonresident Tuition for Qualified Graduate Students

Updated: August 4th, 2011

BERKELEY: OFFICE OF DEAN OF THE GRADUATE DIVISION

January 24, 1997

DEANS, DIRECTORS AND DEPARTMENT CHAIRS

I am very pleased to inform you that at their January 17, 1997, meeting, the Regents adopted a new policy, providing a reduction in assessed nonresident tuition for graduate students advanced to candidacy for the doctoral degree.

Essentially, the policy is:

For graduate students who are advanced to candidacy for the Ph.D. or professional doctorate, beginning fall 1997, and after, nonresident tuition will be reduced by 75% for up to three years. Graduate students who are already advanced to candidacy in fall 1997 would also be eligible, but only for the remainder of three years from the date of their advancement to candidacy; and

For graduate students who do not complete their doctoral degree within three years after advancement to candidacy, and still need to register, the nonresident tuition will be reinstated to its full amount.

The Office of the President is working on implementation guidelines, which the Council of Graduate Deans will review during their February meeting. We hope to distribute these to you in March.

The campus strongly supported this change, since it will bring UC in line with the practice of our comparison universities, all of which have reduced tuition in the later years of a graduate student’s career.

Joseph Cerny

Dean

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