It doesn’t affect freshmen and sophomore years, but assuming the student sticks with the major and goes for the higher level classes…it will apply.
It’s not a huge difference in the scheme of things, but yeah, I am not happy about it.
In summary, this is what was voted on in 2015:
“This university plans to gradually increase tuition for business, engineering and computer science majors during students’ junior and senior years starting in the fall, university President Wallace Loh said.”
“Future university students enrolled in these majors will receive $2,800 tuition increases junior and senior year after paying the university’s flat tuition rates freshman and sophomore year.”
I’m not sure what they officially call the surcharge, but here’s the article when the news first broke http://www.dbknews.com/archives/article_69efdba8-f28f-11e4-9b3c-53c3d6325cf8.html