<p>I am an international student.
the tuition fees for me is $30,176 every year.But Purdue and Texas A&M or some other colleges are only a little over 20k per year.
I know UIUC may have a better overall student body.
But why more expensive?
They use the extra money to do what? build more facilities? to pay for professors?To....?
I just don't know why UIUC ask students to pay more?
It must have some reason,I think.
So any one of you get an idea of that?
It's very urgent and thank you!
(My family have the ability to pay more, but they want to know the reason)</p>
<p>Plus, my major is IE</p>
<p>The reason is that UIUC, like other state universities in the US, receives funding from both the state and the US government. This funding is generally tied to the # of students from each body.</p>
<p>As a result, tuition for an in-state student is partially covered by the state of Illinois, partly by the US government, and partly by the student.</p>
<p>Tuition for a domestic, out-of-state student is partially covered by the US government, but the student now pays their own share plus what the state would have paid.</p>
<p>International students are covered by neither the US government nor the state of Illinois, so they carry the whole thing themselves.</p>
<p>A more accurate idea is that as an international student you pay the full price, while domestic students get partial (indirect) subsidies from the US and Illinois goverments. All state universities operate like this to some extent.</p>
<p>Also, research expenditures are higher at UIUC than Purdue and TAMU, though that shouldn’t be passed down to the students to a huge extent since most research is funded by grants. However, the higher research expenditures usually means a larger graduate program, and with more graduate students, you need more money to pay them to be TAs (since RAs are covered by the research grants usually). A program that has a larger research expenditure will tend to focus more on grad school, so they will use TAships and RAships to entice students to come to the school, and these things cost money. TAships especially draw from undergraduate (and to a lesser extent, graduate) tuition.</p>
<p>That said, this shouldn’t really change the price as drastically as the difference between UIUC and Purdue/TAMU, so there are probably some other factors as well. I am sure some of it is name recognition since TAMU is relatively new in the research university community, but Purdue is arguably a more well-known school for engineering, at least outside of the engineering community, owing to the huge number of graduates they have every year.</p>