Berkeley Plans Admission of Foreign and Out-of-State Students to Raise Revenue

October 21, 2009, 1:48 pm

The University of California at Berkeley plans to admit hundreds of new out-of-state and international students next year to help close a growing budget gap, the San Francisco Chronicle reported today. The proportion of nonresident undergraduates in the freshman class could jump from 14 percent to 23 percent under a proposal by a university task force. Such students typically pay higher, undiscounted tuition. Berkeley and other University of California campuses have been looking to bump up enrollment since the system absorbed cuts in state support of nearly 20 percent.

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4 Responses to Berkeley Plans Admission of Foreign and Out-of-State Students to Raise Revenue

jlevyprewitt - October 21, 2009 at 4:16 pm

This is a very sad day for the hard-working students and families who are tax-paying residents of California.

fredd3 - October 21, 2009 at 4:45 pm

I thought that Berkley had asked President Obama to nationalize them as a hybrid state-federal university along with a small number of other “elite” land grant or state universities?What happened? Is it because the president of UC system makes more than President Obama that they need help?

raymond_j_ritchie - October 22, 2009 at 6:02 am

Berkeley will come to regret this decision. It is one of those classics that seemed a good idea at the time. It is also a terrible sandtrap that is hard to escape from.Unfortunately, once addicted to the opiate of full-fee paying foreign students as a solution to your finacial problems is very hard to kick the habit even though it quickly becomes obvious that it is hurting you. Everything has to be sacrificed to keep up the numbers – no matter what it takes. Furthermore, like motherhood & babies it is very hard to say anything against it: any opposition to more “international students” is quickly attacked as unprogressive.

rickinchina09 - October 22, 2009 at 10:12 am

One can’t help but admire the delicious paradox in this bastion of Far Left academic extravaganza resorting to base capitalistic motives to prop up their institutions of dismal learning.