Midwest colleges look out of state for students, more tuition money

[pstokely]

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About 35 percent of MU’s freshmen this fall are coming from outside Missouri, more than double the 17 percent of 10 years ago. And this year, for the first time, MU received more applications from out of state than in Missouri.

With state governments cutting higher education funding, and tuition making up an ever-larger part of schools’ budgets, universities across the country are trolling for out-of-state students.

“It’s a national trend,” said Mike Reilly, executive director of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.

And, as so often is the case, it’s a trend fueled by money.

Twenty years ago, tuition was a quarter of MU’s operating funds. Today, it accounts for 60 percent.

Nonresident students typically pay twice as much as residents, or more. Tuition at MU for a Missouri resident taking 14 credit hours is $9,272 a year. For an out-of-state or international student, it’s $22,440.

“It helps us balance our budget,” said Vice Provost Ann Korschgen. “If we had not brought in more out-of-state students, maybe we would be laying off people.

“It’s extra millions of dollars. Huge.”
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http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/10/3759833/regions-colleges-look-out-of-state.html#storylink=cpy

[bluestateguy]

1. Interntional students too

They also pay the out of state tuition and many of them tend to have the big bucks.

[nanabugg]

2. Faculty should stop there publication lust and get back to classroom education.

Most colleges should stop their obscene building programs the amount of funds that are collected for sports ventures that take away from academic achievement in more than one way.

[pstokely]

3. and they should stop giving bad coaches golden parachutes in their contracts

nt

[xmas74]

4. It's not just Mizzou.

UCM also has a rapidly growing out of state population and international population. A number of the out-of-state are lured here by the aviation program, which is much more expensive and harder to get into at K-State.

[pstokely]

5. Colleges are more aggressive in marketing out of state

but they should have found a non-journalism out of state student at Mizzou for the article, that program has always attracted out of state students

[xmas74]

6. Mizzou's known for it's journalism school

and has always attracted from out of state.

Do you think the new push is partly because of its membership in the SEC?

[pstokely]

7. They began this before the conference switch

Although the switch might make it easier to market in places like Atlanta or Orlando. Even out of state tuition at Mizzou is probably cheaper than in state tuition at many California colleges

[xmas74]

9. We have quite a few from Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma,

Illinois, Iowa, and Texas.

I would think the switch would make it an easier draw for some, considering how much free publicity they now receive.

[SoCalDem]

8. From 1965 on, small midwest schools were full to the brim, with rich boys from

the east coast.

These were boys whose bad grades would not cut it in their locale, so Mummy & Daddy shipped them west with all that juicy out of state tuition..

I dated one of them..Joby something or other ..from West Something or other Connecticut..... ..he was nice enough, but I really liked his new XK-E

Kansas was always better than Viet Nam..