Claire Suggs with the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute calculates that a UGA student’s HOPE award will now only cover 74.5% of tuition. This understates the challenge for HOPE recipients, though, as UGA charges $2,258 in mandatory (non-HOPE covered) fees per year.Taking fees into account, the HOPE scholarship now only covers 60.1% of the tuition and fees at UGA.he Augusta Chronicle has crunched the numbers and found that UGA’s tuition and mandatory fees have increased from $3,276 per year in 2000 by over 3.5 times – students next year will pay over $11,600.