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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if those declining/not attending are more out of state than in-state.  It would be interesting to see those numbers.

I think yield would be much better if they accepted more than just 27% VA residents.  The yield would be very high if more in-state kids were admitted.

I still think it sucks that VA public state universities offer so few spots to VA residents.   Gotta get that OOS $$$$.[/quote]

It should be more like UNC :

The 82/18 rule, mandating that no more than 18% of incoming first-year students at UNC System Schools are out-of-state, [b]ensuring room for 82% in-state enrollment[/b][u], was created in 1986. No changes to the policy have been made since.

“The intent was to ensure that there were enough seats for qualified North Carolina students in the public universities,” Kimberly van Noort, senior vice president for academic affairs and chief academic officer of the UNC System, said. “The public universities in North Carolina are very generously supported by the state and by taxpayer dollars and the intent was to prevent displacing qualified North Carolina students in favor of out-of-state students who might be paying higher tuition.” [/quote]

A[b]nd I realize a big part of the problem is that Virginia does not generously support the public universities.[/quote][/b]

Where on earth did you get that idea?  The Commonwealth is pumping money in construction at GMU, JMU, CNU, etc. etc.[/quote]

From the UVA tour...the amount they get from the state was miniscule.[/quote]

The Commonwealth contributes less than 6%.[/quote]

Virginia’s unique structure for funding schools may be one of the most broken, according to critics — unique because schools don’t work through a central university system, like they do in New York, North Carolina or Texas, which allot taxpayer dollars according to a formula.  Unlike states with a centralized university system, Virginia’s legislature funds each university on a case-by-case basis, generally giving each a little more year after year but doing so in response to lobbying by each university, which pitch their needs to state Senate and House education committees.

The result is a disbursement system that even the state’s own higher education has described as “irrational.”

“If Virginia is going to invest in public education, it should probably focus its attention on the institutions that are moving the needle the most,” Murphy said. “If you’re a place like William & Mary, where close to half of the students don’t even take out financial aid.[b] Or if you’re a place like UVa, where you’re enrolling the state’s wealthiest students, on top of more than a billion-dollar endowment, the state may not need to invest as much in you, because you’re already wealthy. You’re not enrolling the lion’s share of students who come from low-income backgrounds.”[/b]

In 2021, a State Higher Education Finance Report found that Virginia students shouldered thousands of dollars more in tuition costs than the average American student. Virginia students contributed $9,000 in tuition revenue, compared to a U.S. average of $6,700, according to SHEF data.

https://richmond.com/news/local/education/debt-lobbying-and-distrust-hamper-funding-for-higher-ed-in-virginia/article_5e1603c0-98d6-11ed-93fa-b7fa536917ab.html[/quote]

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