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<p>Actually, if you go to the [University</a> of California: StatFinder](<a href=“http://statfinder.ucop.edu%5DUniversity”>http://statfinder.ucop.edu) , you will find that, even as UC has been steadily defunded by the state, graduation rates have gone up. Both UC and its students have more economics incentive to have students graduate in 8 semesters / 12 quarters and no more. If you look on the UC forums, you’ll find that the “not getting the courses needed to graduate in four years” is not a significant complaint among students there (at least at Berkeley).</p>
<p>It still may not be worth OOS money for most OOS students (especially in competition with schools like Minnesota and Virginia Tech with lower OOS costs, schools like Virginia and North Carolina that give need aid to OOS students, and often one’s in-state flagship), but not for the “not getting the courses needed to graduate in four years” reason.</p>
<p>Community colleges are a completely different story in terms of course overcrowding, though.</p>