The goal of high tuition-high aid is to charge high-pay residents the nonresident tuition net of the state subsidy to support low-income residents. This approach often ignores differences in program costs and presumes the state appropriation will not react. Here tuition and subsidy structures are developed as rules in a welfare-maximization framework. Once fixed costs are accommodated, low-pay resident enrollments can be admitted at marginal cost, thereby achieving efficient enrollments. The models are applied to Penn State University, where it is shown that high tuition-high aid can approximate actual tuition policy, accommodate enrollments of low-income students, and increase total welfare.

高学费高补助的目标是向高收入居民收取国家补贴的非居民学费净额，以支持低收入居民。这种方法通常会忽略项目成本的差异，并假设国家拨款不会做出反应。在这里，学费和补贴结构是作为福利最大化框架中的规则制定的。一旦固定成本被容纳，低收入居民就可以以边际成本入学，从而实现有效的入学。该模型应用于宾夕法尼亚州立大学，表明高学费高资助可以接近实际的学费政策，适应低收入学生的入学，并增加总福利。