Residents are crowded out of college by out-of-state and foreign students
Universities concede the trend is largely about money
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In her 18 years as a counselor at California high schools, Kirsten Barnes has seen hundreds of seniors apply for college. But few were as qualified as this one.
The student’s grade-point average was near perfect.She took the maximum number of advanced-placement classes. She had joined extracurricular clubs, and was in the National Honor Society.
But the University of California at Berkeley, her first choice, turned her down.
“You’re basically auctioning off spaces for people with more money.” Patrick Callan, president of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
“I thought, ‘Wow, a couple of years ago, she would’ve gotten in,’” said Barnes, who works at Hanford West, a Central Valley high school.
Barnes and other counselors have seen the public University of California system steadily increase their enrollments of out-of-state and international students they accept. Coveted for the higher tuition they pay,the number of nonresident students enrolled at the University of California’s 10 campuses rose from 22,984 to 31,991 between 2009 and 2012, an increase of nearly 33 percent, UC figures show.
During the same period, the number of in-state students has fallen from 199,431 to 196,917, a decline of 1.3 percent.
Facing the double whammy of reduced state funding and flat tuition, public colleges and universities nationwide are pursuing an obvious source of income: out-of-state and international students who are not eligible for in-state tuition subsidies.
After all, resident students paid an average of $8,893 for tuition and fees at public, four-year Residents are crowded out of college by out-of-state and foreign students | Hechinger Report: