UC sees money in out-of-state students

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

Ask any University of California undergrad where he comes from, and the answer - with 94 percent certainty - will be somewhere between San Diego and Crescent City.

That may soon change.

UC should recruit higher-paying students from out of state over the next five years to take the place of thousands of in-state students, an influential commission that advises the UC regents decided Tuesday in San Francisco.

The commission said that UC enrolls about 15,000 California students beyond what the state pays for, and the university would do better financially with more out-of-state students.

It's the money that matters.