This State University Gets the Message: Offer Out-of-State Students an In-State Tuition Deal
The University of Akron has launched the program. Other colleges in Ohio have similar programs, but not as good: Youngstown, Kent, and Cleveland State.
This report was run in the Dayton News (April 3, 2006).
. . . This fall, Akron will debut what may be the most aggressive reduced-rate program in the state, available to students nationwide plus U.S. protectorates.
Nonresidents with lackluster grades still will pay the full cost. But the university will cut the out-of-state surcharge by 60 percent for good students. It will eliminate the surcharge entirely for the best students who meet stringent qualifying criteria, like being in the top 10 percent of their high school class. . . .
But some students who pay something are better than no students who pay nothing, suggested Rich Petrick, vice chancellor of finance for the Ohio Board of Regents, which oversees higher education in Ohio.
"If they've got excess capacity in programs or courses, the marginal cost (for adding out-of-state students) is almost zero," he said. "In exchange for new students, they're forgoing a very small amount of money."