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[quote=Anonymous][quote]  The school must maintain about 77% of student body as in state. This is a Colorado law.  [/quote]

No, that's not really correct.  Boulder actually has a high percentage of OOS students, at least compared to comparable flagships that try to cap that percentage.   The legal requirement in CO law (at least in recent history) was that 66% of enrollment should be in-state, but that was changed a couple of years ago to allow the in-state percentage to drop to 55% as officially calculated.   But the true in-state percentage at Boulder is even lower than that, since Colorado's official calculation of the in-state/out of state ratio excludes foreign students (which would otherwise drive up the OOS number), and also double-counts some Coloradans.  Basically, since CO underfunds the state universities, it's increasingly understood that full-pay OOS students are needed to fund Boulder's budget -- which is something CO legislators can live with as long as the university agrees (under law) that no qualified CO student will be turned away.

CU Boulder's own enrollment profile from last fall explicitly states that (only) 56% of its students are Colorado residents (which again probably uses the slightly misleading calculation that excludes international students).     
https://www.colorado.edu/oda/sites/default/files/attached-files/overallprofilefall22.pdf
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