THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 2011
PAGE 5
TUITION
University ups recruitment out-of-state
Non-natives bring in big bucks and possible answer to fewer Kansan high school grads
BY LAURA ERDALL
lerdall@kansan.com
Going to school out-of-state can be costly, but the price of an education at the University of Kansas will go up this fall semester for both Kansas residents and non-residents under a proposal before the Kansas Board of Regents.
Since 2008, tuition for in-state incoming freshman has increased from $3,438 to $4,182; that is a $744 increase for an undergraduate taking 15 hours per semester. For non-residents, tuition has risen from $9,030 to $10,875 since 2008 -- a $1,845 increase per semester.
Lisa Pinamonti Kress, director of Office of Admissions, said that officials would like more in-state students, but recent studies show that there are less students graduating from high school in Kansas.
Kansas projects to have about 3,400 fewer high school graduates a decade after 2004-05, a decrease of more than 10 percent, according to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education website.
"Since graduating classes are on a decline in Kansas, we're trying to recruit students primarily from the Midwest," Kress said. "Especially from Minneapolis, Nebraska, Texas, Colorado, Missouri, Chicago, Iowa and Oklahoma."
"Since graduating classes are on a decline in Kansas, we're trying to recruit students primarily from the Midwest..."
by 20.7 percent, and the Midwest by 14.2 percent.
Regionally, in the decade leading up to 2004-05, the number of high school graduates grew the fastest in the West at 34 percent, with the South growing by 23 percent, the Northeast
The South will see the most growth in its production of high school graduates, at about 9 percent by 2014-2015. West's numbers will climb by 7.1 percent. But the number of graduates produced in the Northeast and the Midwest will decline by 6.1 percent and 3 percent.
"KU is expanding its efforts in California to recruit because there's a growing population of students there," Kress said.
Office of Admissions did a one-year comparison to last fall and
LISA PINAMONTI KRESS director, Office of Admissions
found that there's a growth in recruitment of students from cities such as Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis, some areas in California, and St. Louis.
University regional admissions representatives are assigned to territories across
the country to attend college fairs and make individual trips to high schools to talk about coming to KU. Territory managers are on the road from September through October and they put on numerous events in the spring.
Last fall, the total head count on the Lawrence campus was 26,266 with 18,147 being Kansas residents and 8,119 being non-residents. That's 70 percent of students from Kansas and only 30 percent from out of state.
"The Office of Admissions won't know official number of students, both Kansas residents and non-residents, until the 20th day of classes because students will still be enrolling up to that point," Kress said.
IN-STATE SAVINGS
TOTAL NUMBER OF UNDERGRADS LAST YEAR: 26,266
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