That income they help bring in never leaves the athletics budget. I don't get a tuition discount because my school just made it to a bowl game. I do get tuition increases to help cover the cost of the new stadium and training facilities though.

With vastly too many overpaid crazies running them and political correctness run amok, stupidly expensive traditional universities are in full death spiral mode. Until they start being run like a business, a business who’s product is young people fully prepared enter the workforce and make a good living rather than…

True story. I go to a “non-profit” medical school, whose name shall go unmentioned at least until I graduate, where they avoid turning a profit by paying the dean $900,000/yr and anyone related to her over $300,000/yr (for reference, look at it this way $900,000 is nearly 26 students worth of tuition). Also by…

Don’t forget the whole tuition/amenities cycle that is driving prices up.

Hey look for profit universities in the list of top 50 research universities.

This....100% this. Football (the hand-egg kind) coaches should not make more than a typical teacher. Hand-egg is overrated as a sport, anyway.

Yes. Education in this country is a racket. The student-as-customer model is broken and promotes everything from grade inflation to frivolous spending on flashy facilities to the manipulation of stats as you see in “The Wire”. Foreign students are much better educated in general. It’s only when you get into…

I gave your comment a star because what you say about public universities is absolutely true, but having seen both kinds of institutions from within I can say confidently that for-profit ones take badness to another dimension.

Not only that, check out the ratio of administrators vs teaching faculty.