Deposits are due today for students wanting a spot at their college of choice this fall. And for many state public universities, an increasing number of those students will be coming from other states. That means those schools collect much higher tuition.
In-state tuition at the University of Wisconsin Madison, for example, is just over $ 10,000. Non-residents pay $ 26,000. In spite of that, out-of-state enrollment there keeps growing.
“So even though we’re seeing pretty much a significant growth in interest in international and out-of-state students, we really are looking at enrolling as many Wisconsin students as we can,” says Joanne Berg, vice provost for enrollment management at the university.
She says the University of Wisconsin has a cap on its percentage of out-of-state undergrads. But that ceiling went up this year, from 25 percent to 26.5 percent.
The risk, some say, is shutting out low-income students. Bradley Curs teaches higher education at the University of Missouri, where he recently did a study on the out-of-state enrollment at public universities.
“So we sort of expected that if you bring in more out of state students, you’re more likely to be bringing in more wealthy affluent students,” Curs says, “and we find that finding pretty strong.”
On the other hand, he says, a midwestern school like Wisconsin almost needs to look out of state to diversify its student body.
Going for dollars, public universities are taking more out-of-state students
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