🏈 In last ten years the student enrollment size has almost doubled.

[TerryP]

A lot of growth; A LOT.

 

[doemasters]

I will be the first to say it, I wonder how they cant fill up the student section of the stadium :slap8:

 

[planomateo]

Incoming freshman are averaging a 26.1 SAT score. The bummer to me, in-State enrollment is decreasing 5% year over year. Last year, 60% of freshmen were non-residents.

I'd love to know if the majority of the non-residents were getting scholarships, the underlying question is how this affects the bottom line.

 

[BamaFan334]

Incoming freshman are averaging a 26.1 SAT score. The bummer to me, in-State enrollment is decreasing 5% year over year. Last year, 60% of freshmen were non-residents.

I'd love to know if the majority of the non-residents were getting scholarships, the underlying question is how this affects the bottom line.

Yes, a lot of out of state students are in deed getting academic and scholar based scholarships. You know universities these days want more diversity and they like to say their school's footprint touches all fifty states and many different countries around the world. They do this to create revenue, more donations, and grants to help with research. The international footprint is amazing on campus. Look over at the dorms by Ferguson and it's like the United Nations with so many different ethnicities. I am from Georgia and went to the University of Alabama and graduated last Summer, and I also knew a good bit of folks in the Accounting program that were from Georgia, Texas, and Tennessee that had received scholarships based on academics out of high school. Plus, don't forget, they LOVE LOVE LOVE that out of state tuition for the ones that don't get scholarships. That's double the tuition for no extra work or hassle. A ton of kids from Texas on campus as well. I was very surprised by that, but our business school is gaining momentum and jumping up the rankings faster than the others, but other programs we have are climbing as well. So much money is being put back into the university it's unbelievable. They attribute that to Coach Saban and the football team's good fortune and performance, because everyone wants to be a part of a winner.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

The growth in out-of-state tuition has saved the University from the cuts other schools have made over the last five years, and has fueled its growth. Instead of a building boom, some schools can't maintain what they have or retain faculty. I believe LSU has been among the hardest hit. I don't know that our growth in out-of-state students is sustainable (personally, I'd like for it to be less than half), but many of the southeastern schools recruit hard in Atlanta (Bama, aubrun, MSU, Ole Miss and SC in particular). What we really need is, consistently, for more in-state students to attend Bama than aubrun, not just generate more graduates. We're ahead of them in that regard for now, after trailing them for a few decades.

RTR,

Tim