As state spending for public universities goes down, international student enrollment goes up. A newly published working paper seeks to quantify this relationship, estimating that for the period between 1996 and 2012, a 10 percent reduction in state appropriations was associated with a 12 percent increase in international undergraduate enrollment at public research universities — and a 17 percent increase at the most research-intensive public universities, the flagships and other institutions that are members of the exclusive Association of American Universities… “A very small number of universities have a capacity to draw in sizable numbers of domestic out-of-state students,” Turner said. But for the rest, she said, increasing international enrollment “is one tool that our paper shows they have been able to use to try to reduce the impact of the cuts on state appropriations. You can think of this as potentially benefiting all the students.”

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by Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher Ed.

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