Chronicle article on NE and Mid-Atlantic schools missing enrollment targets

[Richard the LIONhearted]

May 20th Article is premium - the story mentions how Bucknell is down 2% in FA 19 applications year-over-year. Yearly tuition at Bucknell is nearly 70k... As a result, Bucknell is finding out that PS is becoming their top competitor for new students, whereas most competition historically was among Lehigh and Lafayette, etc.

There has been all sorts of talk on this about PS's tuition and how high it is and pinching out middle-class students, and this is true due largely to state funding declines to higher ed, but in the larger realm of so-called elite private institutions, PS is still a relative bargain with an strong reputation and choices for majors. I just wanted to show the other side of this coin and how PS, for all of its problems, may stand to benefit from declines at private institutions.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Enrollment-Shortfalls-Spread/246341

 

[BringBackStoneys]

And this, even though PSU receives a little over $10,000 per student in PA State Subsidy.


BTW.... do you know how much PSU Applications are down the last couple years?
(I do )

Norm loves to cite his own fabricated numbers. The actual appropriation is $4600/in-state student.

And Penn State applications are up in a huge way due to joining the Common App.

 

[Richard the LIONhearted]

I think the discount rate for private colleges is 50%? So, yes, a lot of student prob don't pay full price but I assume a lot do.
I think some commonwealth campuses are indeed down, while others (Abington, Harrisburg, Great Valley) are up. UPARK is very steady and certainly seems to remain so.

 

[Richard the LIONhearted]

You can use the link to find the figures..... if you wanted to

Wow! I think you should run for the BOT sometime.

 

[BringBackStoneys]

If you read the link, you would have seen this:


"Primary data source, U.S. Department of Education https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?id=211291


But, of course , you are an adamantly ignorant, illiterate jabroni.

Your appropriation per Penn State student number is wrong.
Your assertion that Penn State applications are down is wrong.

I could give a flying fig about Bucknell.

 

[BobPSU92]

I want to know what eric barren is doing about Bucknell's tuition.

 

[BringBackStoneys]

Why has Penn State's Yield dropped to 28.4%..... oh learned Rabbi?

Why has PSU dropped into the class of Iowa and Nebraska wrt academic quality.... oh intellectual Guru?

I'll hang up and listen (most likely, to dead air and static )[/

You couldn’t be more hapless at making a coherent argument if you tried.

So now you’re on to yield. You’ve decided to hang your hat on admissions yield as the indicator that Penn State has sunken to the same lowly level of academic quality as Nebraska-Lincoln.

Well guess what? UNL has one of the highest yield rates in the country! Higher than Caltech, but not quite as high as academic powerhouse University of Alaska at Fairbanks.