Professional Degree Supplemental Tuition (PDST)

DEFINITION

Professional Degree Supplemental Tuition (PDST) is an additional tuition assessed to students enrolled in designated graduate professional degree programs in order to achieve and maintain excellence in the preparation of students for professional careers and effectively advance the mission and strategic academic plan of the graduate professional degree program charging a PDST.

POLICY

Regents Policy 3103: Policy on Professional Degree Supplemental Tuition

TIMELINE

The annual call from the UC President to the Chancellor for multi-year proposals for programs assessing Professional Degree Supplemental Tuition (PDST), or for programs that plan to establish a PDST charge for a new or existing program, is sent during the summer (~August), with a deadline in fall (~mid-October).

The following programs are required to submit plans for consideration by the Regents:

• PDST programs with multi-year plans that have expired or will expire prior to the next summer or fall that wish to continue assessing PDST,

• PDST programs that were granted a one-year exception to the multi-year plan requirement at the prior May Regents meeting,

• PDST programs with current multi-year plans that wish to propose a PDST increase that is larger than that outlined in their current plan, and

• graduate professional degree programs that wish to charge PDST for the first time.

CONTACTS

UCOP Budget Analysis and Planning: https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget/staff/index.html

UCSD Contact: Heide Trimble (htrimble@ucsd.edu)

NOTES

A document with suggestions for how to advance a successful proposal, based on guidance from leaders of programs that have undergone recent reviews is available only to campus Deans, Assistant Deans, and the AVC-EI. Please contact Erica Lennard (erica@ucsd.edu) for access.