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It is about 3.6%, but those stats are wildly misleading.  A more realistic percentage could be about 10X as high.  The medical center is over half (53%) of UM's $9B budget and it is predominantly funded, as you would expect, by patient fees.  Take out other areas where you would have no expectation for (or authorization to use) state appropriation funding (external sponsored research, athletics, housing, food) and you are left with activities (instruction, financial aid, administration) that will be closer to $2B, so the state appropriation is actually covering over 16%.  But consider again that states appropriate to support only in-state students and about 50% of Michigan's undergraduates are actually OOS, and you can see that the state is actually supporting about a third of the expected cost for in-state undergraduates.  
[/quote] that is some serious gymnastics to get to a 33% funding figure. State
Money is only used to support in-state students?  Come on now. The State of Michigan funds 15% of the operation budget. Instate students pay more than 3 X less than OOS ($15.5K vs $51k) for tuition only. The States have an outsized influence on the schools compared to how they fund. In-state parents demand more say than their tax dollars provide. It’s politics, NOT finances. [/quote]

It isn't gymnastics, it is just excluding things that state appropriations are generally prohibited from funding (patient fees, auxiliary activities, etc.).  OOS students likely pay in excess of the real cost of attendance, thereby subsidizing in-state students in addition to the state appropriation.  What was meant by the comment that appropriations only support in-state students was that in-state students are the ones that are afforded the discounted tuition, as you cited.[/quote]

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