Higher Education
In recent years, the University of Oklahoma has significantly increased its reliance on out-of-state and international students, who can be charged significantly higher tuition rates than Oklahoma students.
For the last two years, the majority of OU’s freshman class has consisted of non-Oklahomans, and out-of-state and international students have accounted for 71 percent of freshman enrollment growth at OU since 2014.
According to a whistleblower, a similar trend is underway at OU’s dental school, which increasingly relies on foreign students.
The source, an individual familiar with the OU dental program who spoke on condition of anonymity, noted that students admitted to the Advanced Standing Program for International Dentists (ASPID) program at OU pay $176,011 per year for two years of training. In contrast, OU collects just $45,381 per year from Oklahoma residents, meaning OU collects nearly twice as much money from foreign students in two years as it does from Oklahoma residents over the entire four-year program.
While the total amount collected from ASPID students is almost the same as the total amount paid by non-resident students from other states attending OU’s dental school, OU collects $352,022 in tuition from the ASPID students in just two years, compared to collecting almost the same amount over four years from non-resident students from other states.
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