~8,000 Chinese students expelled from US colleges from 2013--14.

[anomander]

I have heard much in the news about how UC needs OOS tuition money, but I think it is much less widely known that the OOS tuition is subsidized by the taxpayer. If UC is going to pass over qualified in state students to go after a quick fix of OOS tuition money an honest accounting is needed to demonstrate to California families that it is worth it.

I was curious about this assertion that full-pay OOS at University of California is subsidized by the California taxpayer, so I looked up some numbers. I found an official budget report for 2013-2014 for the University of California.

Total state funds for fiscal 2012-2013 was 2.4B. Number of students was “over 240k”. That maths out nicely to 10k per student in state funds. I say “nicely” because that’s very close to what tuition was at the time; I think tuition is around 12k for the 2015-2016 school year. Given that OOS full tuition is around 32k, it seems clear to me that OOS full pay is very much a net contributor by a factor of 2x.