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Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is highest priced Cal State university

February 19, 2025

By KAREN VELIE

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is the highest priced university in the California State University system because of the fees it charges, according to a CSU report.

The average campus-based mandatory fees in 2024-2025 are $1,981 per student while Cal Poly charges $6,077. The state university system charges consistent tuition rates at all campuses.

In March 2022, Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong announced the San Luis Obispo based university would be adopting a measure to raise fees for future students. Beginning in 2023, tuition prices would increase by approximately $700 a year, every year until 2026.

“The increased fees will go mostly towards efforts to increase racial and socioeconomic diversity in the student population by offering more scholarships and financial aid, according to university administration. The university wishes to see the demographics of the student body “more closely resemble the state of California.”

 


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Well Armstrong may create the “United Colors of Benetton” on the Cal Poly campus, but with the average home costing in the millions and a limited job market, those young people won’t be staying in SLO after they graduate, so what is the point of the whole exercise?


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“The increased fees will go mostly towards efforts to increase racial and socioeconomic diversity in the student population by offering more scholarships and financial aid, according to university administration. The university wishes to see the demographics of the student body “more closely resemble the state of California.”


This is a tale as old as time and great political rhetoric to raise fees. Keep raising the fees and Cal Poly will become an even more elitist non-ethnically and socioeconomically diverse student population, Cal Poly has never been a student body resembling the California demographics and never will.


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Congratulations to Cal Poly SLO for becoming unattainable to all but the financial aid and very wealthy students.


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Really not much in between these days if ya haven’t noticed…


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Degrees are overrated, in my opinion. My first experience with corruption before coming to the coast in ’05 and discovering Cal Coast News was in witnessing a fellow classmate from a Bakersfield farming family graduate magna cum laude in 2003 after sparingly participating in classes and addressing the professors as “sir.” He never once showed much academic intelligence. Just shows what money can buy when you’re a member of a farming family, the highest paid welfare recipients as a result of the Farm Bill, which pays farmers to fallow their crops in order to manage U.S. crop prices.


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Sounds like Devin Nunes, only he came from Tulare.


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Talk About taxation without representation. There are a lot of poor white kids too.


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Boy, this story should hit a nerve.


Anyway, I applaud the stated goal of diversity. When I was a student at Poly in the early 70’s—ag major—I remember only a handful of Hispanics in my classes and I would doubt there were any African-Americans, unless they were playing football or basketball.


However, when I went to school, tuition and fees were very little. Books were the big expense. We must find a way to make a college education more affordable and not saddle our young people with crippling debt after they graduate. In this complicated world, a person with a college degree, on average, makes a million dollars more during their lifetime than someone without it.


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