<p>Just to clarify, the UCs currently cost about $13000 a year in tuition, compared to a national average of $17,000 a year for state universities. They are, IMHO, not overpriced. They give a lot of AP credit, so a student can still easily graduate in 4 years. The same is not true for the California State University system, which is more impacted, but the tuition is $5472 a year, quite a bargain, especially for an excellent school like Cal Poly SLO. With 112 community colleges, 23 California State Universities, and 10 UCs, our higher education system is larger and more comprehensive than that of most countries. If only the legislature would treat it like the jewel that it is…because as the Chancellor of UCSF said on the CBS Evening News last night, education is one of the keys to getting people back to work. (She was the CEO of Genetech, jointly founded by Stanford and UC Berkeley people).</p>