Mississippi Wants More Tools to Compete for Students

The race for talent in the form of college students in on in Mississippi. Listen to this.

Mississippi university presidents do not believe they have any weapons in the years-long border war with institutions in neighboring states that lure their students with the promise of waived out-of-state tuition. They say "But it's time to fight fire with fire — to eliminate out-of-state fees for Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama and Louisiana students in counties and parishes just across the Magnolia State's lines."

Get this. Schools like the University of South Alabama have waived out-of-state charges for residents in six south Mississippi counties since the mid-1960s. The waiver helps lure nearly 1,000 Mississippi residents every fall to 12,500-student USA in Mobile, officials say.

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