NEW RELEASE: Higher Education Policy From Brookings Mountain West

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Brookings Mountain West is pleased to announce the release of a new higher education policy brief:

"The Great Student Swap,"

by Aaron Klein and Ariel Gelrud Shiro

The Great Student Swap

Brookings Institution Economic Studies senior fellow, Aaron Klein, and research assistant, Ariel Gelrud Shiro, author this policy brief that explores trends in student body compositions, tuition costs, and appropriations for state schools across the country, focusing on public flagship universities.

Public flagship universities are engaged in a Great Student Swap, admitting more out-of-state students and relatively fewer of their own in-state students. The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is one institution that contradicts this trend. UNLV has increased its enrollment of in-state students in recent years, as it achieved coveted R1 status from the Carnegie Classification for Higher Education. This study explains the Great Student Swap using data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). IPEDS data reveals that 48 out of the 50 flagships experienced a growth in their share of out-of-state students. This report focuses on a subset of 16 states—those that begin with the letters M and N—to provide a sample designed to cross section the country.

Click Here to Read the Full Report Online

In M states, the share of in-state students dropped steadily from 72 percent to 60 percent. This is equivalent to replacing one out of every six in-state students with an out-of-state student. In N states, the share dropped from 78 percent to 68 percent, where it has remained since 2014. This is roughly equivalent to replacing one out of every eight in-state students with an out-of-state one.

In 2018, average out-of-state tuition in M and N states was almost 3 times as high as the average in-state tuition. In other words, an out-of-state student pays in one year what many of his/her classmates pay over three years for the same college education.

The increases in federal and state aid combined do not keep up with the growth in tuition cost over the same time period. Aid from the educational institutions themselves has become increasingly important. Universities provide a growing amount of their student’s costs with financial aid.

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