Do budget woes bode even higher OOS tuition?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
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<p>Campus</a> Updates | UNC faces new budget reductions, state-funded position hiring freeze | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</p>

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<p>Ugh!! I hope not.</p>

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<p>There’s probably going to be an increase in both OOS and IS tuition. UNC could really help itself by trying to get rid of the mandate that requires it to have only 18% of it’s students be OOS.</p>

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<p>Hopefully they take more OOS students who can pay full price.</p>

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<p>While I too would like to see it change I will suggest not holding your breath…North Carolina taxpayers pay a really disproportionate amount of their taxes for higher education…the public outcry would be enormous…it already was when they found and used the “loophole” that was recently closed as a result of the furor it raised.</p>

<p>Even if they raised it to 25% it would still be considerably less than at its peer schools (UVA +/- 31% or Michigan +/- 45%) and would probably also increase the percentage of top instate students who will matriculate that are now choosing other schools due to an unwarranted fear of lack of diversity…</p>

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<p>What about just turn all state schools into private and compete with them on the same footing? CA, WI, IL and many states are neck-deep in deficit. They are all in the same boat.</p>

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<p>Yeah, NC taxes for higher education are higher like eadad said. There would be an extreme outrage, especially since UNC is the “poster” university for the state. If they were to take more OOS students, it wouldn’t be this year. I don’t see that law changing for awhile.</p>

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<p>There was an article that pertains to this in the paper recently if anybody’s interested: [Cutting</a> Chapel Hill loose - Other Views - NewsObserver.com](<a href=“http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/01/17/921357/cutting-chapel-hill-loose.html]Cutting”>http://www.newsobserver.com/2011/01/17/921357/cutting-chapel-hill-loose.html)</p>

<p>I also don’t think they’ll change the OOS ratio anytime soon. The law applies to all NC public schools. I’m not sure if 18% is the same for all of them, but I know that it’s definitely at least under 20%. NC has such great public schools and they want NC students to be able to take advantage of them. I personally think that UNC should be able to accept more OOS students to make it really live up to its reputation (the in state frat boys kill it a bit), but they’re not going to change the state law for one school that it would help.</p>

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<p>I don’t think the cap on OOS students will change, but I won’t be surprised if tuition increases. I live near UNC-Wilmington, and they just recently increased their tuition and upped some of their student costs, mostly due to NC’s current economic condition</p>