(For the USA) Why is in-state tuition usually a lot cheaper then out-of-state tuition, do they not want people from different states to go to their university, and is this limited to state universities or any universities.

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(For the USA) Why is in-state tuition usually a lot cheaper then out-of-state tuition, do they not want people from different states to go to their university, and is this limited to state universities or any universities.

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Former staffer at Penn State – The state subsidizes the tuition for in-state residents. The university doesn’t make the cost higher for non-residents, the state makes it cheaper for in-state residents.

Almost all of Penn State’s state funding is earmarked for specific uses – in-tuition tuition, operating state services like ag extensions and maintaining the the back up 9/11 system.