I’m hearing we are going to announce…..
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A quick consultation with Gemini says enrollment has gone up 9 of the last 10 years. Are you saying we've been below a previous record attendance for over 10 years?
Sadly, some here will be upset because good news takes them out of their comfort zone. When you reflect that none of these record enrollments has anything to do with football, it's pretty impressive.
Enrollment numbers won't get announced until November, but expect record overall and freshman enrollment.
It’s the enrollment cliff everyone has been dreading for a while. Just overall people having fewer kids will start hitting.
And yes, everyone is hitting record numbers right now. Especially in the south bc so many northerners are sending kids here. We need to get in on that since so many sec schools deny a ton of kids
The birth rate dropped during the Great Recession starting in 2008
All colleges should take their Euro, Yen, Rand, Peso, Franc, Yuan, Real, etc and be happy.
Just like they did in Florida when they took the money to train those guys how to fly before they used their training to hit the WTC?
For the first time in forever, last year, after watching us own the total enrollment record year after year, the bears were beating their chests and patting their shoulders over having one year of more total enrollment than us. It followed the single biggest loss of investment in football in the schools history. Draw your own conclusions there.
I'm guessing we will show we have more this year, like usual.
I'm guessing we will show we have more this year, like usual.
Not trying to burst your conspiracy theory bubble, but international students only make up about 4% of our students.
I am on campus 5 days a week year round and couldn't tell you the last time I saw anyone wearing a turban. Try again
A number of universities are having an existential crisis with enrollment.
Enrollment cliff expected because people stopped having kids when the 2007 financial crisis hit.
Oh my. I hate that our politics creates such fear as a tactic….Here is a short list of indicators that most foreign university students get educated and contribute here (or sometimes in their country of origin):
- Elon Musk (South Africa): Founder of Tesla and SpaceX. He studied Physics and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
- Noubar Afeyan (Lebanon): Co-founder of Moderna. He earned his degree from MIT.
- David Hindawi (Iraq): Founder of Tanium. He earned his Ph.D. at U.C. Berkeley.
- Michelle Zatlyn (Canada): Co-founder of Cloudflare. She earned her MBA at Harvard.
- Patrick Collison (Ireland): Co-founder of Stripe. He studied at MIT.
- John Collison (Ireland): Co-founder of Stripe. He studied at Harvard.
- Hamdi Ulukaya (Turkey): Founder of Chobani. He studied English at Adelphi University.
- Sanjay Mehrotra (India): Co-founder of SanDisk. He studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
- Mike Kreiger (Brazil): Co-founder of Instagram. He studied Symbolic Systems at Stanford University.
- Vlad Tenev (Bulgaria): Co-founder of Robinhood. He earned his degree at Stanford.
- Dhiraj Rajaram (India): Founder of Mu Sigma. He studied at Wayne State and the University of Chicago.
- Ragy Thomas (India): Founder of Sprinklr. He earned his MBA from NYU.
- Renaud Visage (France): Co-founder of Eventbrite. He studied engineering at Cornell.
- Louay Eldada (Lebanon): Founder of Quanergy Systems. He earned his degree at Columbia University.
- Barry Canton (Ireland): Co-founder of Ginkgo Bioworks. He studied at MIT.
- Ash Ashutosh (India): Founder of Actifio. He earned his degree from Penn State.
- Luis von Ahn (Guatemala): Co-founder of Duolingo. he brought diverse perspectives that helped him identify opportunities that others might not have noticed.
- Daniel Saks (Canada): Co-founder of AppDirect. He studied Finance and Accounting at Harvard.
- Mario Schlosser (Germany): Co-founder of Oscar Health Insurance. He earned his MBA at Harvard.
- Eric Setton (France): Co-founder of Tango. He studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford.
- K.R. Sridhar (India): Founder of Bloom Energy. He studied Nuclear Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
- Andrew Thompson (United Kingdom): Founder of Proteus Digital Health. He earned his degree at Stanford.
- Arean van Veelen (Netherlands): Co-founder of OfferUp. He studied at the University of Washington and Ferris State.
- Tianyue Yu (China): Co-founder of Quanergy Systems. He studied at Cornell.
There's a survival gap of around 11 years between people with college degrees and those without a high school diploma. Need to get the word out. Enrollment doesn't have so much to do with people not having children as it does with the increasing cost of said diploma.
The enrollment cliff is very real....im sure the financial crisis is one reason, but the cost of going to college is outweighing the jobs the degrees will pay to make it worthwhile.....I live in oxford and these SOB's here will let anyone in to school at UM, it is why the real estate here has gone bonkers....they cant build condo's and apartments fast enough....and yes, the out of staters at all the southern schools are coming in waves....i would almost bet that it is 50% at UM....they can pay out of state tuition plus all other costs and still cheaper to send here than stay where they came from.....
Here's a personal example: My niece just graduated from Ohio State with a BS in Health Sciences (or something a long those lines) ....my sister in law told my wife they spent 560K on her 4 year degree (i thought that was on the low side) .....she just got her first job selling for a software company and her starting pay is $70K/year in south florida.....what a waste.
Judging by your other posts in this thread you are definitely “old fashioned”.
Um...no, not like that.
Your comment is beyond dumb, yet it fits right in with many other SPS poster's recent hot takes and extremist views.
Some people learning to fly at flight schools a quarter century ago has absolutely nothing to do with accepting foreign college students, and their dollars, today.
As a country we need immigration policies that promote legal, safe, easy, and stable immigration opportunities.
This is needed to help ensure we remain an economic leader.
Higher Ed is job training. If you apply rational ROI to many things you can get a degree in, it doesn’t make a lot of sense for some degree programs to exist. The contraction you would see if you actually eliminated the possibility of graduating with a ton of debt that could not be paid off is pretty substantial. I do realize that reality forces a lot of people to abandon their passion and pursue a paycheck.
You mention heading south for a less expensive degree, so I assume tOSU is an in-state school.
Even if there was no merit based discounting, tuition plus room and board as well as books will cost less than $30k in total per year.
That is 5x less than what they apparently paid.
OOS with no merit based discounting is still about 2.5x less than what they apparently paid.
If your personal universe truly begins and ends with people born and raised in MS, ole fashioned isn’t the term I’d use
I wonder if Alabama will see enrollment drop off. They have about 60% out of state kids, presumably because of football and maybe other sports. It's not because they're a particularly outstanding academic school. Last year, they lost a couple of games and probably will lose some this year. DeBoer is not Saban, and NIL/pay-for-play plays a big role now.
The fact that increased enrollment at State can't be attributed to sports is really saying a lot.
Pretty sure those were private flight schools that the 9/11 terrorist got their training from, not "colleges"......
it was out of state....and included everything down to gas going to and from, sorority, apartment, cost of living, etc....that is what it cost my in laws....lucky for my niece, they have it
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