International student enrolment at US public universities has increased as state funding has declined, according to a recent working paper that suggests how institutions have dealt with budget cuts.
The , published by?the National Bureau of Economic Research, estimated that a 10 per cent reduction in state appropriations for universities between 1996 and 2012 was associated with a 12 per cent increase in international undergraduate enrolment at public research universities.
The figure for international enrolment jumps to 17 per cent when only the most ¡°resource-intensive¡± public universities are taken into account.
The paper, ¡°A passage to America: university funding and international students¡±, said that the figures show that a ¡°significant set of public universities were able to take advantage of the expanding pool of potential students from abroad to provide a stream of tuition revenue that partially offsets declining state appropriations¡±.
¡°In the absence of the pool of foreign students, many universities would have faced larger cuts to expenditures and potentially greater increases in in-state tuition charges,¡± it added.
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