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SEASIDE - Come spring semester, California State University campuses are closing their door to in-state graduate students, but neighboring states can come on in.
California State University, Monterey Bay, is just one of 23 campuses in the university system reducing enrollment to close a budget gap.
"We have enough students than we can handle at this point from in state," said James Tinney, senior communications officer at CSUMB.
He said it boils down to how much students pay up.
The CSU said most full-time graduate in-state students pay $7,356 for tuition, while out-of-state students pay that plus $372 per semester unit; that's because in-state students are subsidized by the state.
Last spring, CSUMB had no out-of-state graduate students.
Systemwide, there were 315 students.
The CSU will re-evaluate enrollment again in the next budget and Monterey Bay hopes this is only a temporary fix.
"It is unfortunate and we would certainly prefer to be in a situation where we had the funding to admit those students and we're hopeful in the future we are able to," Tinney said.
