How $30 million annually becomes almost half a billion in five years

California lawmakers decided to pay the three most popular University of California campuses — UC Berkeley, UCLA and UCSD — about $30 million annually for five years so they'd enroll 900 more California undergraduates and not enroll an equal number of non-resident students. Because nonresident students generate nearly three times as much revenue for the UCs from their much higher tuition charges, the state paid the three UCs the difference.