I agree, but it’s already way past $20k in total costs. The “tuition” number is a sleight of hand.
Dude it's Connecticut, you pay more everything there.
There is no way tourney credits are worth $9 million per team.
CT has somewhere around the 5th highest income/salary per household in the country (depending on the stats you find). You can both get a better job after graduation and have parents that can afford to pay more.
All true, but it still was tone deaf. That's the kind of observation that was best made quietly and privately. Plus, since the bulk of the reduction in funding to the university was due to no longer existing federal Covid funds, she played her Trump card both early and effectively. I'm sure she's brilliant at what she does, but she needs to let people help her in the areas that she's unfamiliar with. I'm sure that's a lesson learned.
As unlikable as it is for UConn’s overall-athletic dept to continue being on the outside looking in and for SMU now being in the newest ACC, more than enough SMU old ranching, oil & gas, etc dinero easily stepped up to cover any lost revenues.
You have a duty to ALL citizens of the state, not only the rich or upper middle class.
How are their need based aid packages? How is their Academic Scholarship funding? Not all fundraising goes to Academics and Athletics. Some goes toward FA.
Almost no state schools give a significant amount of financial aid. There may be programs in some states funded by the legislature, but typically the school has nothing to do with that. Quite the opposite, schools are sometimes expected to fund those programs in part, which makes no sense really.
I know you work in schools but what do you mean by this? Everyone I know who goes to UConn receives significant financial aid.
Athletics is included under the General University Fee which for 2023-2024 is $785/semester.
Which is why it ultimately makes the most sense for the programs in power to split off and make 4 12-team conferences. May not be 64 teams like our basketball-centric minds thought. I still think that overall we should be comfortably be in that 48 team rapture
So my question is.....Is this standard in most Universities? Seems like a good chunk of money each semester
That's a surprise to me. At UB, almost no one receives it. It's how things always used to be.
It's almost impossible to measure, but you can figure it out by looking at the student fees given to the athletic department. That would give you a better sense of the subsidy. In other words, don't look at the charge, look at the ADs budget for the total amount of student fee subsidy.
Just curious: what B1G school do you support?
People forget his "would you want to be Connecticut" shiv when he took his whorehouse to the ACC.
Went to IU - have two kids at Purdue
I thought most of what UConn offered was merit based, not need based. My friend's daughter was valedictorian. She's pocketing money. That type of excellence should ne rewarded IMO. She's doing mechanical engineering so, she's continued kicking ass.
UConn students get substantial student aid. The average in state pre-aid cost is $35.8k and the average after-aid cost is $21.7k. That is why UConn is still a relative bargain for in-state kids. Of course, if your parents are making $200k per year, you are probably not getting any financial help.
I don't know how it all works but I know some happy dads that their kids chose UConn. One of them is a Syracuse dad and UConn hater, he said what UConn offered was too great for his son to even think about Syracuse.
200k ain't all that much, when trying to pay 36k a year, and when you factor back to back kids like i had forget about it. We will have probably have like 20k for each kid.
I was asking because some schools like Michigan provide a lot of subsidy support from the academic side.
