By Kara Dement |Staff Writer| California once was considered to have the best-value public universities in the world according to Justin Pope of the Associated Press. California has seen the highest tuition increase in the nation while the CSU’ system has specifically gone up 21 percent; which is the largest in any state according to a source on calstate.edu. The CSU Board of Trustees raised the CSU tuition for this fall by 12 percent . This increase went into effect for not just CSUSB but the remaining 22 CSU schools as well. The average annual cost was raised for full-time undergraduates by $588 to $5,472 which is more than triple what students used to pay. Pope reported … [Read more...] about California has the highest tuition increase in the nation