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re: Note to Out of State Alums
Posted on 8/27/10 at 10:04 am to AFTiger
Posted on 8/27/10 at 10:04 am to AFTiger
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UT is almost twice the size of LSU and enjoys a ranking and reputation in the Top 50--size has nothing to do with it, standards do.
Wow, your lack of understanding how colleges work is amazing.
First off, UT has the 2nd largest endowment in the US only behind Harvard. That alone makes them an entirely different beast ($12.1 Billion to LSU's $555 Million). I'd sau a 24-fold higher endowment makes it pretty damn different.
Secondly, UT does have ~52,000 students. they have ~39,000 Undergrads and ~13,000 Grad students. That means their grad students make up 25% of their student body and are involved in research. That is what brings in money. So 25% of their students are bringing in money outside of tuition to their university unlike undergrads that are economically a net drain on the university while there.
LSU, on the other hand, has 26,000 students(much lower than the 32,000 when I was there 10 years ago), and of that 26,000 only 4,000 are graduate students or roughly 15%. Again,that is LSU's issue. They have too much money pumped into their undergrads and actually should continue to get smaller in the undergrad and larger in the grad student populations.
This cut in a useless scholarship that brings very little positive to the university, may help do that.
This post was edited on 8/27/10 at 10:09 am
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Posted on 8/27/10 at 10:11 am to LSUMafia
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First off, UT has the 2nd largest endowment in the US only behind Harvard. That alone makes them an entirely different beast.
UT has enjoyed a unique financial source in the University owned minerals in Texas oil and gas fields that have been producing a significant amount of money for a long, long time. One might be hard pressed to find many other universities, if any, that have enjoyed such a fairly dependable source of income like that.
This post was edited on 8/27/10 at 10:12 am
Posted on 8/27/10 at 10:40 am to LSUMafia
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LSU, on the other hand, has 26,000 students(much lower than the 32,000 when I was there 10 years ago), and of that 26,000 only 4,000 are graduate students or roughly 15%.
Up to almost 28,000 again last fall. Indications are that enrollment should be up this fall also. Mostly because they are admitted anyone with a pulse and a means to pay tuition.
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Posted on 8/27/10 at 4:12 pm to LSUMafia
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Wow, your lack of understanding how colleges work is amazing.
Right backatcha fricktard. I see from your posts that you are a fricking infant who only wants to argue--unless you currently serve on the governing board of a university, you should just shut the frick up and let the adults have a civil conversation. You have absolutely zero credibility when your only argument is "whaaaaaah, you people left the state and left the rest of us here!" Did it ever occur to you that perhaps some of us are contributing alumni who have given more to the university since we graduated than you will ever make in your lifetime?
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