UC takes more out-of-state students as California admissions slow

[alp227]

Source: Oakland Tribune

As more California high school seniors fight for spaces at popular UC campuses, the universities have flung open their doors to students from other states and countries, more than tripling the ranks of out-of-state freshmen in the past five years.

Freshmen from outside the Golden State now make up almost 30 percent of their class at UC Berkeley and UCLA, up from just over 10 percent four years earlier, a new analysis by this newspaper shows.

The shift feels like a betrayal to some families coping with -- or fearing -- rejection by the distinguished university system, which was built by and for Californians but now is turning them away in record numbers.

Read more: http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_25731301/uc-nonresident-students-increase-californians-admissions-slow

[Galileo126]

1. It's simple

Residents: $13,200 per year, tuition and fees
Out of state: $36,078 per year, tuition and fees

Duh. But still shameful.

[Salviati]

3. Indeed, although one could ask who betrayed whom first...

From http://budget.universityofcalifornia.edu/?page_id=5


The driving force behind tuition increases at state universities is the drastic drop in state funding subsidizing student tuition. One should ask that if the state is cutting its support of the university so drastically over the past few decades, why should the university show preference to in state students?

[Ash_F]

8. That graphic is pathetic. Thanks for for sharing

First world nation? Nah.

[Helen Borg]

5. Yep...

Follow the money. Always works. The article also points out the management parasites, that suck more and more money out of the system.

[stuffmatters]

2. This is an outrage

First Arnie Duncan making hundreds of billions off of student loans
Now Janet Napolitano essentially stealing(privatizing) our Ca public universities, denying access to education that hundreds of thousands of parents and taxpayers have paid into for decades.

What is it with these Obama Third Wayers? I'd throw Sean Donovan in there too- enriching banks and hedge funds trillions and profiting shareholders of Freddie/ Fannie billions while offering little real help to struggling homeowners. ( The HARPs are essentially mortgage porn)

I hope some Ca State legislator starts a bill to keep out of state % at Ca universities below 10%...back to it's traditional ratio for public, taxpayer funded Ca universities
Also a bill to cut back administrative costs if they need to make up the difference between the "public&quot Ca students) and "for profit" out of staters. . Those ballooning , non teaching costs are what have thrown university budgets into the
stratosphere.

And. of course, more spent on each prisoner than it would cost to send them to Berkeley....(Brown's obsession with maintaining drug laws/arrests and hispriority of building more prisons...absolutely incomprehensible)

[deurbano]

4. This really pisses me off.

[wildeyed]

6. If you want nice things, you have to pay for them.

Maybe all the tax-haters will buy a clue now that they have to send their kids to less good colleges out of state for a higher cost.

[Throd]

7. My neighbor has both his kids in an out-of-state college to save $$$.