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Well, it's not just US health care that has a problem. Consider this: ETH has 19.2K students and a $1.68B annual budget, while Stanford (a comparable university
by KKKKkkkk1 10y ago
Well, it's not just US health care that has a problem. Consider this: ETH has 19.2K students and a $1.68B annual budget, while Stanford (a comparable university) has 16.3K students and a $5.5B annual budget.
- jmgrosen 10y agoIgnoring whether it's related to healthcare or not, ETH Zurich is a public institution, whereas Stanford is private. Perhaps a more comparable university would be UC Berkeley (which many would consider to be on par with ETH), which has 38.2k students and a ~$2.5B annual budget.
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- JumpCrisscross 10y agoIn case you don't want to do the math, ETH Zürich's per-student cost (~88,000) is 33% higher than UC Berkeley's (~65,000). Stanford's (~340,000) is 5.2x Berkeley's and 3.9x ETH Zürich's.
- theparanoid 10y agoSlateStarCodex's "Considerations On Cost Disease" is a good take https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost-disease/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...
- adventured 10y agoETH is not a comparable university to Stanford. It has neither the international reputation & network (which is part of what is being purchased), nor the output (in any regard: science, technology, alumni). There are several public universities in the US that would however be comparable to ETH: UC Berkeley, UCLA, UVA, UNC, etc. ETH still isn't on the level of even a Berkeley when it comes to science or technology output.