Big Sports Wins Mean Big Money for Campuses

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In general, however, scholarship athletes in helmet sports at other schools do not graduate at nearly the rate that other students do.

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<p>Got numbers?</p>

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At the University of Florida, 2009 students paid a mandatory $1.90 athletic fee per credit hour – $57 per student per year for a student taking 15 units. They have nearly 50,000 students. In return they get discount tickets to athletic events. The athletic department records it as a revenue. From my view, it is just a tax. If they were really profitable, they wouldn’t need to tax general students in order to support the athletic program.

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<p>And what do the students pay that goes toward the fine arts departments?</p>

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and the athletic programs are often not charged for the capital expenditures associated with their programs

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<p>I’ll bet the fine arts departments pay for all of their own stuff, too, huh? The Rec Center? The ______?</p>