Friday, May 27, 2011

For-Profit Colleges Spend Much Less On Educating Students Than Public Universities

Chris Kirkham reports:

For-profit colleges devote less than a third of what public universities spend on educating students, even though the for-profit institutions charge nearly twice as much as their public counterparts for tuition, according to new federal government data released Thursday...

On average, for-profit schools spent $2,659 per student on instructional costs during the 2008-09 school year, compared with $9,418 per student at public universities and $15,289 per student at private non-profit colleges.

 
Meanwhile, the average cost for an undergraduate student at a for-profit college was nearly $31,000, after factoring in grants received. The average cost for private non-profit colleges was $26,600, while students at public universities paid on average $15,600.

The entire article which first appeared in the Huffington Post is linked here.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is evident in the degrees they offer. They do not offer say Dental Hygiene because it is an expensive program to run. they stick to pharm. techs, medical coding , medical assisting, because they are much cheaper programs to run.

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