Fort Hays State University outsources rising tuition costs to China
While college costs have been rising steadily across the country, a public university in western Kansas has managed to maintain the lowest tuition in 17 Midwestern states.
Credit China.
Using a cost-effective model that other schools are beginning to copy, Fort Hays State University has sent faculty members to two Chinese universities where about 3,500 Chinese students are taking courses leading to U.S. bachelor’s degrees in business, communications and political science.
After expenses, Fort Hays is banking more than $1.5 million a year from the tuition that Chinese students pay. That’s tuition money that students at its Hays, Kan., campus don’t have to pay.After Kansas Regent Dan Lykins voted approval last month for some hefty tuition hikes at the universities governed by the Board of Regents, he praised the Fort Hays-China connection, calling it a “brilliant” partnership and mechanism for keeping costs down.
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