Here’s one big reason for admitting out-of-state students to the undergraduate ranks of the University of California: money. Among other things, that helps pay for students from California who can’t afford the in-state tuition of less than $15,000. UC President Janet Napolitano has long claimed that the tripling of out-of-state enrollment over the past decade or so hasn’t harmed California students because the university didn’t reduce their numbers; it simply added more from out of state. Obviously, if UC accepted more students from out of state, those seats didn’t go to Californians. During the recession, cuts in state budgets often meant a search for outside sources of funding for state university systems.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 21, 2017 18:32 UTC