California’s crowded community colleges are recruiting foreign students willing to pay top dollar, report San Francisco Chronicle columnists Matier and Ross. A foreign student pays $5,332 for 12 units compared to $624 for an in-state student. It adds up.
Take the Peralta Community College District in the East Bay, which recruits an estimated 800 to 1,000 students from Europe, Asia, Africa and Israel each year, according to a new Alameda County civil grand jury report.
. . . The foreign aid translated to more than $4 million this year for Peralta.
While Peralta has trouble finding space for in-state students, spokesman Jeff Heyman says the foreign students help the college.
“It generates revenue and makes it a more interesting place for community college students to have international students,” Heyman said. “We live in a global world.”
Only 14 percent of the foreign recruits earn an associate degree within two years. The college doesn’t know if departing students are going home, transferring to a four-year institution, overstaying their student visas or finding marriageable U.S. citizens.
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