The very same thing is happening in Britain, where many local universities have admissions and recruitment officers actually based in non-EU countries, particul

The very same thing is happening in Britain, where many local universities have admissions and recruitment officers actually based in non-EU countries, particularly in China where the value of a British degree is played up heavily. Students from outside the EU can pay up to five times more tuition than those from within. Some universities (Nottingham springs to mind [1]) even have campuses in Asia and the Middle East, and fly lecturers and professors out, so the students don't even have to move to Britain to study. I don't know if it affects admissions - whether you've got more chance of getting into the college if you're a high fee-paying foreign student. But it has to be a factor, when these institutions are struggling so much. [1]: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/about/campuses/chinacampus.aspx http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/about/campuses/chinacampus.aspx