Granting In-State Tuition to Undocumented Students Increases Their Rates of College Attendance

The UC Davis Center for Poverty and Inequality’s latest brief offers the following “Key Facts”

• Undocumented immigrants face many barriers, financial and otherwise, to higher education.
• Colorado’s ASSET legislation, which grants in-state tuition to undocumented students in Colorado, increased the enrollment, credit hours, and persistence of first-year students at four-year colleges by up to 20 percentage points in the year following its introduction.
• College-going rates among disadvantaged students on the margins of college attendance in other states would likely be improved by legislation similar to ASSET.

Not surprising in the least.

KJ