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Posted on 4/28/15 at 4:08 pm to RANDY44
Posted on 4/28/15 at 4:08 pm to RANDY44
quote:Or the LSU system growth of 13% since 2000. With that growth, between 1999 and 2005, so just 6 years, it grew by that 13%. I do consider that considerable. I am sorry if you think I intended to mislead
hanks for making my point.
ETA: Although Bama is in a different stratosphere. I should not have compared out growth to them.
This post was edited on 4/28/15 at 4:10 pm
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Posted on 4/28/15 at 4:10 pm to flyAU
quote:This.
I do also think that education as we know it is going to transform dramatically in the coming decades. Student loans will become unsustainable as tuition soars and more and more students go to get a college degree (since it is pretty much a requirement for a good job) which in turn will water down the potency of that degree in securing a good job. The digital age will change things (not talking about the failed attempts of Everest etc). Spending 4 years going to college racking up debt is an old concept that many will look for a competitive alternative. Once that competitive alternative is there, affordable and accepted, enrollment in our traditional brick and mortar schools will begin to fall. There will be an education bubble that will burst and those that are trying to grow as fast as possible will be left with an overinflated infrastructure that they can no longer support.
For the 2014-15 academic year, tuition and fees for an Alabama resident at AU was $10,200 ($5100 per semester for Fall and Spring semesters).
In 1979, when I started at AU, when we were still on the quarter system, in-state tuition and fees for the entire academic year (Fall, Winter and Spring quarters) was $600.
No, that's not a typo. Six. Hundred. Dollars. A. Year.
That's an increase of roughly 1700% over three and a half decades. For perspective, over that same period the the average starting salary for a college graduate has risen only about 300% in nominal terms (currently about $45,000).
Yeah, this is not going to end well.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 4:47 pm to lsupride87
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That brings up another point. Why is LSU not at 44k in the OP'S list? It looks like others schools are listed at their system enrollment
A&M's listed enrollment number isn't for the TAMU System.
That number is 131,000.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 4:50 pm to lsupride87
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That brings up another point. Why is LSU not at 44k in the OP'S list? It looks like others schools are listed at their system enrollment
This post was edited on 4/28 at 3:49 pm
Alabama isn't listed as system wide in the OP. It's 36k for just the Tuscaloosa campus. It's another 15-18k for UAB and 4-5k at UAH.
Posted on 4/28/15 at 5:10 pm to RT1941
Which is where you'd refer back to my statement about being more selective and improving the quality of the incoming classes, not the quantity. I also said I wasn't sure what he was referring to about LSU's numbers skyrocketing. In fact my uncle told LSU had 35k in the 90s, but I would assume that evened out with dropout rates 
To answer your earlier question-no, I haven't heard of anything regarding the legislation. Jindal does know gutting education as much as initially planned is political suicide, but then again he's delusional enough to think he has a shot at the white house
To answer your earlier question-no, I haven't heard of anything regarding the legislation. Jindal does know gutting education as much as initially planned is political suicide, but then again he's delusional enough to think he has a shot at the white house
Posted on 4/30/15 at 11:48 pm to CapstoneGrad06
Wow. When I was at OM we were both under 9k. OM Oxford crossed 20k now
This post was edited on 4/30/15 at 11:50 pm
Posted on 5/1/15 at 12:37 am to GIbson05
Just a few years ago Alabama had 18k.
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