My understanding is that you have non-residents subsidize things such as scholarship programs — but that in-state is fairly close to costs.
State money appears to be a relatively small fraction of their incomes — and is smaller than the increase in their financial position.
https://finance.uw.edu/uwar/annualreport2021.pdf
For in-state, the state is paying approx $27k and the student pays approx $13k, versus in k-12 the state is only paying $13k and that's all they get.
My understanding is that you have non-residents subsidize things such as scholarship programs — but that in-state is fairly close to costs.
State money appears to be a relatively small fraction of their incomes — and is smaller than the increase in their financial position.
https://finance.uw.edu/uwar/annualreport2021.pdf