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Citation needed. Looking at Form 990 for several top private research universities: Harvard: $1,462M tuition vs $592M government grant Yale: $680M tuition vs

Citation needed. Looking at Form 990 for several top private research universities: Harvard: $1,462M tuition vs $592M government grant Yale: $680M tuition vs $528M government grant Princeton: $369M tuition vs $293M government grant Stanford: $938M tuition vs $1,299M government grant As you go down in research activity, the differences only get bigger. Rochester Institute of Technology: $501m tuition vs $113m government grant University of New Haven: $214m tuition vs $6m government grant U.S. taxpayers are not paying for foreign students. Foreign students are paying for themselves, and then some.

pneill 6y ago
First, thanks for the awesome tip about 990 forms. Had no idea. It's interesting in that these numbers differ from the conversations I've had with academics who tell a different story. But I had those conversations decades ago, so perhaps the inflation of higher education has had an impact here. The number you cite is inflated because in includes both US and international students. Is the revenue from international students broken out anywhere? But that doesn't change my point. If the number is >0, it's a problem. The US tax payer should not pay for foreign workers to take US jobs. To be clear, I'm not opposed to international students. I'm just saying that when it comes to impacted majors like computer science, where not everyone who wants to study it can do to capacity constraints, the US government should incentive universities to offer the opportunities first to citizens and then to international students. Right now, for some universities, those slots are reserved for international students.