Stanford and Harvard are in the business of creating new knowledge. They are largely funded by donations and grants. They could survive without any undergraduat

Stanford and Harvard are in the business of creating new knowledge. They are largely funded by donations and grants. They could survive without any undergraduates. The schools that have to be worried are the private, four-year colleges that rely almost exclusively on tuition to pay the bills. Edit: Harvard has 6700 undergrads[1] and Stanford has 7000[2]. Kansas State (where I work) has about three times as many. [1] http://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance http://www.harvard.edu/about-harvard/harvard-glance [2] http://stanford.edu/about/ http://stanford.edu/about/