Illegal Education Benefits and Their Cost to Kansas Students
After watching CNN's Lou Dobbs' broadcast on April 27, 2004 about illegal alien education benefits and section 505 of the ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION REFORM AND IMMIGRANT RESPONSIBILITY ACT OF 1996 I decided to do a little further investigation. Because section 505 of the act requires states who provide tuition benefits to children of illegal aliens to extend those same benefits to all other legal citizens or nationals of the United States regardless of residency requirements, I was quite surprised to find Kansas, just one of the nine states currently offering such a benefit who passed such a law in July 2004, has over charged non-international, out-of-state students roughly $67,331,333.64 last year alone.
Based on statistics current as of Aug, 16 2004, KU (Kansas University) had approximately 5,380 out-of-state, non-international students enrolled in undergraduate studies. The in-state rate for tuition at KU is $138.75 per credit hour. Out-of-state tuition rates are $403.90 per credit hour.
If a student hopes to complete a four year degree in four years, they must average 15 credit hours per semester. This means the out-of-state, U.S. citizen or national, is paying a premium of $7,954.50 per year.
If you take into account the number of out-of-state, legal U.S. citizens or nationals attending KU, KU has been over charging these students roughly $42,794,573.64 per year since the fall 2004 semester.
But KU isn't Kansas's only major university. KSU (Kansas State University) had 2,801 out-of-state, non-international students enrolled in undergraduate studies during the same time period. Based on current rates of $137.00 per credit hour for in-state students and $429.00 per credit hour for out-of-state and the 15 credit hour per semester requirement for graduating in four years, these students are each being over charged $8,760 per year or a total of $24,536,760.00.
Combined Kansas universities are over charging students approximately $67,331,333.64 per year. These estimates do not include enrollment statistics for other Kansas institutions, like Pittsburg State University, Wichita State University, Washburn, Johnson County Community College, Coffeeville Community College, and others.
Hopefully, this program and others will continue to investigate this fleecing of America further.
Have fun,
j.
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