Two bills in the North Dakota Legislature take aim at the large number of out-of-state students in the North Dakota University System.
Rep. Mark Dosch, R-Bismarck, said taxpayers shouldn’t be asked to subsidize higher education for students from other states, and he’s sponsoring two bills that seek to fix that.
“A lot of people are becoming very frustrated with the number of out-of-state students that are coming into our system,” Dosch said. “In many cases, these out-of-state students are getting the same tuition rate that our in-state students are.”
Dosch has two proposals to address the issue, and his hope is legislators would adopt one of them.
House Bill 1445 would require colleges and universities to return to the general fund state dollars spent on nonresident students.
House Bill 1444 would require nonresident students to pay a minimum tuition amount covering the average cost of education.