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re: LSU Breaks Ground on New Dorms = $200M for 1,266 beds
Posted on 12/10/25 at 5:04 pm to jasonbr1975
Posted on 12/10/25 at 5:04 pm to jasonbr1975
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And divide that by 80 semesters which is 40 years and it comes out to $1,974.72 per student per semester. The going rate for dorms today is ~$4,500/student/semester.
Still a bad expenditure once you factor in the time value of money.
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Posted on 12/10/25 at 5:32 pm to Tigear
Any renderings?
Posted on 12/10/25 at 5:38 pm to Tigear
Wait, where is the location?
Posted on 12/10/25 at 5:38 pm to Tigear
quote:Apparently, the Reveille doesn't know how to correctly spell the last name of the LSU President. That's pretty fricking pitiful.
LSU President Wade Rouse said during his speech at the ceremony.
Posted on 12/10/25 at 6:24 pm to Tigear
That's a lot of money for a bed 
Posted on 12/10/25 at 6:35 pm to 6R12
Honest question, at this price why are the schools involved? $5,000/ semester for 4 students in a 4 bedroom apt is $40,000/ year or $3,300/ month for a 4 bedroom apt. You can get private equity to build and manage apts for much less than that, provide a very good bus service and everyone win.
Living in a ‘dorm’ for $5,000/ semester is laughably stupid amount to pay per student. The answer is ‘it’s a money maker’ which is again stupid, spend your time and money on improving the academics and let someone else worry about housing. I’m sure I’ll get downvoted but that’s just a stupid amount for a student to pay at most SEC schools
Living in a ‘dorm’ for $5,000/ semester is laughably stupid amount to pay per student. The answer is ‘it’s a money maker’ which is again stupid, spend your time and money on improving the academics and let someone else worry about housing. I’m sure I’ll get downvoted but that’s just a stupid amount for a student to pay at most SEC schools
This post was edited on 12/10/25 at 6:36 pm
Posted on 12/10/25 at 6:38 pm to Spasweezy
Tell us you have never stepped foot on campus, without telling us you have never stepped foot on campus. Dorm rooms are sold out, solid. We are putting students in roach motels. Enrollment can't grow any more unless there is a place to live. The revenues are not just dorm fees, the additional students will be paying tuition, parking fees and dorm and meal ticket. This will more than pay for itself.
Posted on 12/10/25 at 6:39 pm to EasterEgg
Actually the opposite. The cost is fixed. Dorm fees will go up yearly for the next 50 years. It will be a cash cow within 10 years.
Posted on 12/10/25 at 6:42 pm to lurking
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They’ll make that money back when these students graduate and join the workforce in state, right? Right?
They’ll make that money back when they raise tuition and students go into more debt on loans that you will subsidize with taxes.
Posted on 12/10/25 at 6:59 pm to Tigear
I wonder if it will be covered in dryer vents like the ones on Nicholson drive - sewer pipes hanging from the stadium and dryer vents on the dorms- LSU is a shite show when it comes to architecture
Posted on 12/10/25 at 7:09 pm to panzer
It’s mostly just freshmen that have to live in dorms. But it’s due to LSU admitting more freshmen,
2023-7,400
2024- 7,800
2025, 8,200
2023-7,400
2024- 7,800
2025, 8,200
Posted on 12/10/25 at 7:13 pm to Tigear
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The dormitory will be located across from the Business Education Complex and it will house students in the College of Engineering and the EJ Ourso College of Business.
Taking over more student parking and forcing kids out to the hayfield lot along River Road
Posted on 12/10/25 at 7:20 pm to panzer
maybe manage the incoming class first and then see how it shakes out.. we need to have academic requirements again. And manage the freshman size.. I can recall in the past lsu wanted to manage their size…. your academic ranking was tied to research.. upperclassmen.. grad studies..
It is clear the university is on a money grab and just want a freshmen pipe of money coming in.. they can all be taught by grad students or large classes and if the upperclassmen size stays smaller ( due to flunking out under qualified freshman ) you do not need as many higher paid professors for those classes
It is clear the university is on a money grab and just want a freshmen pipe of money coming in.. they can all be taught by grad students or large classes and if the upperclassmen size stays smaller ( due to flunking out under qualified freshman ) you do not need as many higher paid professors for those classes
Posted on 12/10/25 at 7:39 pm to Tigear
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It is expected to be done by Fall of 2027.
It'll never be ready on time
Posted on 12/10/25 at 8:03 pm to Tigear
Is this the new dorm project that displaced Touchdown Village 2? That project also included a transportation hub to shuttle students to and from campus.
Posted on 12/10/25 at 8:55 pm to Tigear
Good, I was forced to live in that prison shithole Kirby Smith. This is 25 years too late
Posted on 12/10/25 at 9:00 pm to Spasweezy
Dude we still have Miller Hall. You have to grow and impress. Do you know what out of state tuition is? These kids need nice and competitive dorms.
Posted on 12/10/25 at 9:02 pm to Tigear
I wonder how much of that $200M will eventually be NIL money.
Schools can't directly give money to students for NIL (different than revenue sharing), but they can pay for construction projects, and construction companies can donate to NIL.
Schools can't directly give money to students for NIL (different than revenue sharing), but they can pay for construction projects, and construction companies can donate to NIL.
Posted on 12/10/25 at 9:14 pm to Tigear
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Basic math of $200M / 1,266 total beds = $157,977.88 per...
And we wonder why college is overrated and unaffordable. It’s absurd. We need cinder block rooms and one bathroom per floor like the good days.
Posted on 12/10/25 at 9:18 pm to Tigear
Uh-oh!!! Better make sure "Bleeding Vagina" homemade shine doesn't read this!!
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