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re: Bama fans/alums: Have the recent titles had an effect on the campus/University
Posted on 1/12/16 at 11:58 am to MindRiot
Posted on 1/12/16 at 11:58 am to MindRiot
Here, read this
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more students from outside Alabama paying ever-increasing premium tuition bills – and the school realized $50 million more in out-of-state tuition revenue for last fall’s incoming class than it did for the same class in 2007 ($76 million vs. $26 million). Kick in the additional $8.5 million in in-state tuition, which rose to $9,200 a year from $6,400 over the same period, and overall tuition revenue rose to $104 million from $46 million for the respective 2012 and 2007 freshman classes.
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more applications mean more selectivity. Six years ago, 64% of students applying to the University of Alabama were accepted. By 2012, the acceptance rate had dropped to 53%.
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Posted on 1/12/16 at 11:58 am to tylerdurden24
New York Times had a good article on this, you should look it up. It's very recent.
Posted on 1/12/16 at 11:58 am to tylerdurden24
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I guess this would be my follow up question: How much can you actually attribute to football and how much is just good planning/management/typical growth to be expected for a major state university?
That's very hard to say.
Posted on 1/12/16 at 11:59 am to tylerdurden24
Do they still give full rides to national merit scholars?
Posted on 1/12/16 at 12:00 pm to pvilleguru
Mayor Walt Maddox has helped.
Al Duppont was nothing more than a figure representative of the city. Great man, but he didn't do much to sell the city.
Al Duppont was nothing more than a figure representative of the city. Great man, but he didn't do much to sell the city.
Posted on 1/12/16 at 12:01 pm to pvilleguru
quote:The influx of money in the city is directly related to Saban.
The city has gone through a lot of changes, but I wouldn't say it's because of Saban.
Posted on 1/12/16 at 12:01 pm to tylerdurden24
Coker still alive.
Posted on 1/12/16 at 12:02 pm to ChiTownBammer
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In fact it's not just the University, it's the whole city
Some of the city changes have been from the tornado rebuilding.
Posted on 1/12/16 at 12:03 pm to AHM21
I graduated in 2003 and enrollment was less than 20k since then it has basically doubled. The campus and town has completely changed since I left.
Posted on 1/12/16 at 12:03 pm to TheWalrus
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Do they still give full rides to national merit scholars?
They recruit and give a lot of benefits to the more qualified OOS students.
Posted on 1/12/16 at 12:04 pm to TheWalrus
quote:Yes. And Tier 1 is a full ride for those who qualify even if not National Merit. Bama gives an incredible number of academic schollies compared to similar state schools.
Do they still give full rides to national merit scholars?
Posted on 1/12/16 at 12:04 pm to NYCAuburn
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I had friends/Alums who didnt really want their kids to follow their footsteps to bama for a while.
I don't want my kids going there. It's too big, IMO.
Unless they want to pursue a very specific major unique to Alabama.
Posted on 1/12/16 at 12:09 pm to The Spleen
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I had friends/Alums who didnt really want their kids to follow their footsteps to bama for a while.
quote:I've got a Sophmore at UA (4th generation), and it is indeed BIG compared to my days on campus. A kid can get eaten alive easily if they aren't well grounded.
I don't want my kids going there. It's too big, IMO. Unless they want to pursue a very specific major unique to Alabama.
Posted on 1/12/16 at 12:14 pm to RT1941
quote:Yeah but a lot more kids are living in dorms now. Lot more resident advisors, lot more outreach it seems. I don't know if the average class size has really grown that much. They just need to maintain a good faculty to student ratio, I think they've done well actually giving it a more insular college-y tight knit feel, not just expanding into the abyss
. A kid can get eaten alive easily if they aren't well grounded.
Posted on 1/12/16 at 12:26 pm to NYCAuburn
New York Times: Alabama Rolling in Cash
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Robert Witt, who was the president at the time of Saban’s hiring and is now the chancellor, called the move the university’s wisest investment. After he was hired, the campus surpassed a $50 million capital improvement campaign by $52 million, and he has been a key to reaching a $500 million campaign for the university at large.
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Alabama’s football pre-eminence on television and in the postseason, along with an aggressive plan to extend the university reach beyond the state, has helped attract a more academically-minded student body in the past decade from all over the country and served as the catalyst for more than $1.7 billion in fund-raising, according to those who have engineered the explosive growth.
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The acceptance rate in the last decade fell to 54 percent, from 72 percent. This year, 2,261 freshmen are enrolled in its Honors College, two and half times the number 10 years ago. Its 174 National Merit and National Achievement finalists rank Alabama among the top five public universities.
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The College of Engineering has four new buildings on a $69 million Science & Engineering quad named after Senator Richard Shelby, an alumnus, and his wife, Annette, who is a professor emerita here. Six residential communities with 2.1 million square feet and more than 5,000 beds are new as well.
It is who is inside them, however, that impresses Bell the most — young men and women from New York to Washington State, Hawaii to Maine. Some are the product of the hard work put in by members of Alabama’s more than 110 alumni chapters, which have aggressively recruited potential students and helped endow more than $40 million in scholarships. Alabama’s price t
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Posted on 1/12/16 at 12:27 pm to WG_Dawg
I was an out of state student, but I went there starting in 2009 and graduated in 2012. I can tell you without a doubt the difference is night and day from a pure enrollment standard as well as a revenue standpoint. The amount of infrastructure built up on the campus during that time was insane.
Posted on 1/12/16 at 1:12 pm to genro
One son who graduated there three years ago, and a daughter who will graduate this May, and I can tell you it has made a world of difference. At orientation three years ago, they said the campus puts up or starts a new building every 42 days. There are numerous new dorms on campus, and a ton of new condominiums and apartment complexes. Rental properties are at a prime. With that comes extra expense. Parking decals and tickets are ridiculously high, and parking is at a premium. My daughter loves it though.
Posted on 1/12/16 at 1:16 pm to tylerdurden24
Nick Saban is the best investment the University has ever made.
Posted on 1/12/16 at 1:29 pm to tylerdurden24
Without a doubt YES. My parents still get a shock when they see how improved the University is today as opposed to when they were students there. Some of that is time and whatnot, but the facilities and buildings have been revamped and are top notch in terms of quality, etc.,
Posted on 1/12/16 at 1:44 pm to genro
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To an amazing degree. We're the fastest growing university in the country. I couldn't begin to list it all. Tons of new academic buildings, totally revitalized engineering dept, enrollment has gone from around 22k to 37k mostly out of state etc etc
That's crazy, we had just hit 20k my freshman year in 03.
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