<p>Michigan contributes 300 million a year. There are approximately 16954 in-state undergrads (I took 26,083 undergrads from wikipedia, and just assumed 65% were instate). That means each semester the state provides about $8,850 for each of its students. For LSA lower division that would mean that they are only getting 19% more from OOS students than they are from instate students.</p>
<p>If they only admitted 50% of instate students, keeping undergraduate enrollment at the level it is now they’d be making almost exactly the same amount from instate students than OOS (the difference was something like $100 per semester). There’s no need to go below that.</p>
<p>As well, do you have any information on how much aid an average OOS student recieves compared to an average instate student?</p>
<p>I would have no problem with Michigan remaining a public University if it’s actually being funded well by the state. </p>
<p>The problem I have is that the state, and many residents of the state of Michigan (not a small group of people) think that Michigan’s getting too much money, when it’s actually getting shafted by the state with funding every year. There are also (many) people who complain about instate tuition being too high. </p>
<p>We have the application base, the name, the academic value, the sports, to become an instant top 15 usnews ranked university if we were to privatize in the way that alexandre just described. </p>
<p>Is there any advantages in being a public university when it comes to getting grants for research?</p>
<p>UCB, my reasons for wanting Michigan to slash its undergraduate student population has little to do with rankings. I am more interested in its ability to provide its undergraduate with a better experience. </p>
<p>If Michigan were to cut 6,000 undergrads from its current total of 26,000 and increase its OOS sutent population from 9,000 to 12,000, I don’t think Michigan would lose that much money, if any. Hell, Michigan could reduce its undergraduate population from 26,000 to 16,000 and still not lose much money if 75% of those 16,000 were OOS students.</p>
<p>I don’t think Michigan is planning to get smaller. BUT–if it did, I think we’d all agree that it should do it for reasons that the University believes are right. Not because of USNews. That was my point.</p>
<p>Hehe! UCB, in terms of undergraduate experience, Michigan is awesome. This said, like all universities, Michigan included, have room to improve.</p>