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Show Utah subsidizes many non-resident university, college students here nation for major state universities. univer-sities. This compares with a national average of $382, a Mountain States average of $409, and a Western States average for major state universities. univer-sities. Nonresident fees charged at major state universities Nonresident fees charged at major state universities are $600 iin Arizona, Nevada, and California; $624 in Colorado, and range all the way up to $1,000 in Vermont. Utahns contribute nearly $3. 3 million a year, or $6.5 million mil-lion a biennium, to subsidize out-of-state students attendiing Utah's state-supported colleges and universities. The subsidy for Idaho students alone at Utah's public colleges amounts to $730,000 per year or $1,460, 000 a biennium. These facts were revealed m a study of college enrollments recently prepared and released by Utah Foundation, the non- profit governmental research organization. The Foundation report notes that this subsidy estimate includes the operating costs only and does not reflect added sums for buildings and other facilities needed for such students. Among some of the other startling items brough out in the Foundation study were the following: Special nonresident enrollment enroll-ment fees charged at Utah institutions in-stitutions are lower than in any other Western State and are among the lowest in the entire nation. Although 28,666 Utah residents resi-dents were enrolled in colleges throughout the nation last year, there were 40,700 students stu-dents attending Utah colleges of whom only 26,348 were Utah residents. Only 8 of the Utah residents resi-dents who attended .college leave the state for their college col-lege education. Out-of-state enrollments at Utah's public and private colleges, on the other hand, were equal to more than 35 of total enrollments. Low fees The report observes that nonresident fees at Utah institutions insti-tutions in other states. The nonresident fee of $195 a year at the University of Utah, for example, is fourth lowest in the |