[rr888]

Tuition paid by grad workers are likely to go up to pay for their own wages.

[kuhewa]

Tuition is waived in 98%+ of cases, when it is not the assistantship is being paid by a research grant and for many of those the stipend is already higher than USCs. There may be some act of it tuition fees from one internal account to another in the case of a waiver though.

[endisneigh]

at USC most PhD students would not be paying tuition to begin with.

[ryan93]

They technically pay it out of funds given to the university