The funding numbers I've found for the University of California system are that per-student expenditures are roughly flat, and that tuition increases are almost

The funding numbers I've found for the University of California system are that per-student expenditures are roughly flat, and that tuition increases are almost 1-for-1 offsets for decreasing state funding. Here is a little ASCII table of the state funding history I collected in 2012: http://www.kmjn.org/misc/uc_funding.txt http://www.kmjn.org/misc/uc_funding.txt I have no idea how representative this is of other universities, though, and wouldn't be surprised if it isn't.