<p>OOS students are a “profit center” in that instead of subsidizing all instate students for the real cost of their education, they are getting out of state students that are not subsidized. (Except UVa does currently meet 100% need for OOS students-rare for a public and that could change). For instance, in Virginia, the state used to subsidize at the 70/30 level (students expected to handle 30% of the real cost). More recently and with the recession, Virginia students are more at the 49% level. OOS students at one point were on average paying 75% of the true cost of an education in Virginia but that has increased to at least 100 % of the true cost(which I think is as it should be for OOS students). I think the benefit of OOS students is really more that the state is having to subsidize the cost of less of their instate students, replacing with OOS. But as blueiguana pointed out, Virginia has caps on the number of OOS students. Most states probably have similar links about “Sharing the Cost of Education.” Page 9. <a href=“http://www.schev.edu/Reportstats/2012TuitionFeesReport.pdf?from=[/url]”>http://www.schev.edu/Reportstats/2012TuitionFeesReport.pdf?from=</a></p>