(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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This is just for public state universities, and the reasoning is that in-state residents have been paying taxes to fund the university system so get a tuition break vs. somebody who didn’t already pay taxes toward the university since their tax dollars went elsewhere.