Just a quick question, for experience cost do they count as career or no?

Yes.

I couldn't find it in the book, my gm says they do not. Where is that rule?

The term 'universal' means that the specializations are considered to be within all careers.

Whoops! That's not precisely correct, as 2P51 points out.

p. 275 EoE CRB in the lead to becoming Force Sensitive.

"This specialization is a universal specialization. The experience point cost to take a universal specialization is always ten times the total number of specializations the character would possess with this new specialization. While this means it costs the same as a career specialization, universal specializations are not career specializations."

2P51: thank you! Found it

No prob.