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I work in higher ed and I can tell you that schools are doing pretty much anything they can to stop the bleeding. Some are lowering tuition, others are freezing
by omnivore 18y ago
I work in higher ed and I can tell you that schools are doing pretty much anything they can to stop the bleeding. Some are lowering tuition, others are freezing and the majority are raising it in small amounts.
But given there's no where else to hide and the lenders love giving away the student loans, I think you're going to see kids going someplace. The community colleges might seem even more swelling, but...I don't think tons of kids are going to fall from the school rolls, as much as kids whose parents make too much for them to qualify for aid, will be less able to go to their first choice school where mommy and daddy have to foot the bill.
- endtime 18y agoThanks for your insight. I think my question is still unanswered, however. If more kids go to SUNY, less kids are going somewhere else (unless there were just a lot more kids born 18 years ago than 19). So where are less kids going? Alternatively, if there are less jobs out there, perhaps people are going to college rather than work right out of high school. Anyone know? I'm genuinely curious.
- dantheman 18y agoIn general graduate school enrollments go up during bad economic times. The salary you would earn in the workforce is lower so the opportunity cost of grad school is less.
- omnivore 18y agoIf more kids go to SUNY, fewer kids are going to pricey liberal arts colleges like Ithaca, Hobart & William Smith or out of state public schools in Jersey or Connecticut. They probably didn't get offered any academic aid at those private schools, they just might have been accepted and that's it. Pretty much everyone who was going to school before, still does. It's not a spike in the number of undergraduates, it's a shift in where they'll go.