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Tuition-free postgraduate education to be ended

The universities and colleges in Zhejiang Province will begin to charge tuition fees for all its postgraduate students starting from the fall semester in 2014, announced the provincial price authorities on Wednesday. The detailed tuition standards were also published on its website. An official from Ningbo's Development and Reform Commission said, Ningbo will soon set its tuition scheme based on the principle of fairness and impartiality.

According to the announcement published by the Price Bureau of Zhejiang province, all newly matriculated postgraduates in universities of Zhejiang Province will be charged tuition fees starting from the fall semester of 2014. Under the new policy, yearly tuition fees for master's degrees and doctorates in academic

disciplines are capped at 8,000 yuan (1,272 U.S. dollars) and 10,000 yuan respectively, while standards for professional degrees are 10,000 yuan and 12,000 yuan fee respectively. Schools can charge tuition lower than the standard.

While the newly admitted students have to pee tuition fee, students admitted before 2014 still enjoy tuition waivers. With the new policy, all universities who offer postgraduate programs in Ningbo will start to charge tuition fee to newly enrolled students of government-funded postgraduate programs starting from this fall semester.

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