Friday, October 17, 2014

State Schools Look to Higher-Paying Out-of-State Students to Fill Budget Holes - ERICA E. PHILLIPS and DOUGLAS BELKIN, Wall Street Journal

Many in-state colleges and universities are accepting fewer in-state applicants into their freshman classes. Why? State funding for public universities fell by 23% in real dollars between 2008 and 2013, according to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association. To backfill the billions that evaporated from their budgets, public schools around the nation raised tuition and fees. When public outcry forced them to moderate those increases, scores of universities turned to out-of-state students who pay two to three times as much in tuition as their in-state counterparts. http://online.wsj.com/articles/colleges-wider-search-for-applicants-crowds-out-local-students-1412790096