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Message: [QUOTE="azfan, post: 4588923, member: 7748"] Schools dropping sports and closing is not only not surprising but a trend that will most certainly accelerate. Sortable list of colleges that either drop sports programs or have closed entirely: [URL unfurl="true"]https://hoopdirt.com/the-list-college-athletic-programs-cutting-sports/[/URL] Factors that will accelerate this trend: 1. College enrollment is declining. "In 2022, [URL='https://nscresearchcenter.org/current-term-enrollment-estimates/']4 million fewer[/URL] people in America enrolled at a college than ten years ago. The COVID-19 pandemic further accelerated the decline in US college enrolment, with a [URL='https://nscresearchcenter.org/current-term-enrollment-estimates/']10% decrease[/URL] in sign-ups." [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/us-college-enrolment-is-dropping-can-this-be-reversed-davos23/[/URL] 2. College tuition continues to increase. The average annual cost of tuition at a public 4-year college* is [B]37 times[/B] higher than tuition in 1963. [URL='https://educationdata.org/college-tuition-inflation-rate']College Tuition Inflation [2023]: Rate Increase Statistics[/URL]. 3. Point one above is a result of both point 2 above and demographic shifts. 4. [URL='https://www.bestcolleges.com/research/closed-colleges-list-statistics-major-closures/']Closed Colleges: List, Statistics, and Major Closures | BestColleges[/URL] [/QUOTE]