<p>I wish that there will be common market agreement between states that allow all OOS to pay in-state tuition. This could reduces fair amount of the college cost and make quality school even more selective.</p>
<p>Your plan would be great for students and parents, but there are fiscal realities which won't allow it. Those out of state tuition dollars are part of what keep the state universities going. The % of costs of state universities provided from state budgets has been going down over the years and the universities have had to find strategies to keep the books balanced. One key strategy involves recruiting out of state students.</p>
<p>There could be more federal funds that might be used for this, but right now the federal government is funding a very expensive war and, even if it were not, I'm not sure if there would political support for this. If you want politicians to support more funding for higher education, then tell the candidates who are running for president, as well as for the House and Senate.</p>
<p>Why so much? Good question. </p>
<p>1) we are going to assemble a faculty consisting of the finest minds for your education.</p>
<p>2) we are going to provide these faculty members the best facilities possible in order for them to continue to expand the limits of knowledge in their field.</p>
<p>3) we are going to staff our departments with administrative and technical staff to support both students and faculty.</p>
<p>4) we have to have administrative staff to support federal/state grant programs, financial aid programs, student records, human resources support, environmental regulation compliance, EEO issues, etc.</p>
<p>4) we are going to provide our faculty and students with extraordinary library resources, info systems, broadband internet access, etc.</p>
<p>5) we are going to provide state of the art athletic facitlities for our students and student athletes</p>
<p>6) we are going to provide our students and faculty with immaculately maintained buildings and grounds</p>
<p>7) we are going to provide our campus with its own security staff</p>
<p>8) we are going to provide recreational facilities, and endless number of clubs and organizations, a campus newspaper, etc</p>
<p>9) we will provide our campus with free entertainment from concerts to theatre, to movies.</p>
<p>10) we will provide 24 hour emergency medical staff, clinic facilities, mental health care, etc.</p>
<p>11) free sports both as participants and as spectators</p>
<p>12) we need to fund raise for our endowment, sending representatives across the country to drum up support.</p>
<p>13) if you cant afford our tuition, we will give you scholarships to defray most of the difference.</p>
<p>Now when you go out into the world all this will be taken away but it will still cost you $25,000+ per year for rent, food, entertainment, CTV/hi-speed internet, and that gym membership.</p>
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<p>That would be fine if states made equal efforts to establish and build their state universities. But they don't. Some states, such as California, Virginia, Michigan, et al, have invested heavily in building up their state university systems. Others have skated by due to relying on strong private schools in the region to fill the gap. </p>
<p>By declaring no OOS tutition, you'd see UC Berkeley filled up with many more OOS kids. But smart California kids, whose parents have been paying CA taxes all these years, would not have reciprocal opportunites of equal quality available to them in the low-investment states all those OOS kids came from.</p>
<p>I wish that there will be common market agreement between states that allow all OOS to pay in-state tuition. This could reduces fair amount of the college cost and make quality school even more selective.</p>
<p>there are to some extent
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<p>Market pressure would tend to force the price to increase to OOS pricing for all students. After all, OOS pricing is more reflective of the real costs. In-state is simply being subsidized by the taxpayers.</p>
<p>The consequence is that the state with better state universities will then attract more talent and build better economy. The low-invested state will need to improve their educational institutions or get rusted out. More competition also could cut cost of education.</p>
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<p>Except that you can't "make it up on volume" when it comes to higher education. Because the operating expense per student exceeds the incremental revenue per student, each increase in enrollment without an offsetting increase in endowment or legislative appropriations funding decreases the quality of the education.</p>
<p>Isn’t that also true that better economy will lead to a better tax base and therefore more legislative appropriations? If a state could attract better talent from other state, would this also lead to prosperity for that state?</p>
<p>"Isn’t that also true that better economy will lead to a better tax base and therefore more legislative appropriations?"</p>
<p>The costs are now the payoff is in the future. You are also assuming that the students lured to the school would find spots in the local economy and not just take their education back to their home state or elsewhere. Additionally a better tax base doesn't assure more money appropriated.</p>
<p>If you want in state tuition all you have to do is say you are an undocumented alien. You can get it if you wade across the Mexican border just not if you show up from Pennsylvania.</p>