Tuition fees at Bakersfield College and community colleges across California dropped from $26 per unit to $20 per unit and could drop down to $15 by 2008.

The rate change became effective this semester. California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the state budget responsible for the rate change in July of last year, which provided $680 million to all 109 California community college campuses and 2.5 million community college students.