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Regents Policy 5.7.4 Programs with Tuition Variances
Summer 2008
Campus: University of Nebraska at Kearney
Program: Non-resident Tuition Reduction for students Recruited by Markham International Education
Center of Beijing, China.
Approved: March 17, 2006
Description: The University of Nebraska at Kearney is particularly interested in attracting more international
students and developing student and faculty exchange opportunities to increase diversity and
enrollment. In the Fall 2005, Markham International Education Center (MIEC) of Beijing and
UNK developed an agreement that would bring Chinese students to study at UNK provided UNK
could offer a tuition reduction plan. Therefore, recognizing that there is a huge number of
potential international students interested in study in the United States, that institutions throughout
the nation as well as in most western nations are competing to attract highly qualified international
students, and that for many international students, cost is a very real factor challenging their ability
to study in the United States, UNK proposed to reduce tuition charged to qualified Chinese
students recruited to the University of Nebraska at Kearney by MIEC. This differential tuition
proposal to charge 150% of UNK resident tuition to these Chinese students was approved by
President Milliken in March 2006. A total of 22 students from the MIEC program attended UNK
in the Summer semester 2008.
Enrollment and Tuition:
MIEC Chinese Students at UNK
Summer 2008
STUDENTS
CREDIT TUITION
ENROLLED
HOURS DOLLARS
TOTAL 22 60.00 $8,029.31
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