UC out-of-state students increase as Californians’ admissions slow
Out-of-state students pay nearly $36,000 per year in tuition compared to $12,900 for in-state students; UC collected a half-billion dollars last year alone in out-of-state fees. So cutting off that extra tuition revenue likely would mean fewer spaces and less financial aid for everyone. It’s a dysfunctional system, but the colleges aren’t to blame, said Assemblyman Das Williams, D-Santa Barbara, who heads the Assembly’s Higher Education Committee. “If we want to have room for our kids, we’ve got to pay for it,” he said. California is spending less than half of what it did in 2000 for each UC student…
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by Katy Murphy, The San Jose Mercury News.