Breaking Down the Spending at One of America’s Priciest Public Colleges
Auburn University piled money into buildings, administrators and athletics after years of raising costs for students. Among many new buildings on the Alabama campus: a $74 million recreation center, a $51 million dorm.
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Wall Street Journal targets aubrun for lavish spending increases over a decade and a half. School administrators declined to answer questions or follow-ups on financials, which obviously got the reporter's claws out for them. They also stopped reporting the more detailed financials the WSJ used in 2016, and declined to provide them when requested. Honestly, they could've targeted any number of Southern schools following the same blueprint of building luxury accommodations and marketing themselves to out-of-state students to pay for it. Alabama and Ole Miss probably wouldn't have fared better in an analysis.
Still fun to see them on the hot seat, though.