If you have plans of pursuing a post-graduate programme in any of the public universities in the country then brace up yourself for a touch challenge.

Whereas the universities charged subsidised fees in time past for such programme, the situation has taken a different turn now.

The country’s public universities are gradually converting their post-graduate programs into fee-paying ones to generate funds internally.

Although the rule was synonymous with private institutions which do not enjoy subventions from the state, public institutions seem to have taken on the same trend.

Joy News has learnt that at the University of Ghana for instance, students who enrol in these programs pay between GH¢1500 and GH¢8000 per academic year amounts some post-graduate student have termed killer fees.

Some students on these fee-paying programs are compelled to borrow from banks and other relations to pay the exorbitant fees.

To compound their problems, most of the programs are run such that it becomes impossible for the students to work whiles schooling.

Some graduate students at the University of Ghana tell Joy News that this is not good enough.

“It is unrealistic… it is unimaginable,” a graduate student told Joy News.

Meanwhile officials at the National Council for Tertiary Education have declined comment on this matter.

This is because there is a similar case before the Supreme Court challenging the legitimacy of fee-paying programs being run at the undergraduate level.