New Chart Shows Severe Cuts in College Funding by Each State

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<p>Off</a> the Charts Blog | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities | The Deep Hole in Higher Ed Funding</p>

<p>Great table at the link shows the severe decreases in college funding for each state over the last couple years. An exception was North Dakota, which has new found wealth from oil drilling, and which is trying to use their colleges to reverse past population declines.</p>

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<p>It would be interesting to see how this chart lines up with changes in in-state list prices and in-state net prices (after average financial aid) for state colleges and universities in each state.</p>

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<p>Thanks for posting. It’s rather eerie to look at and wonder how it’s going to play out in the long run. We’ve heard of increased class sizes, decreased class offerings, higher fees, and other such things, but I wonder how it’s affecting merit & need based aid too.</p>

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<p>Depressing.</p>

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<p>Add this to the student loan interest rate increases expected on July first. </p>

<p>It is looking very frothy on campus quads lately.</p>

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<p>And add it to the “more students choosing state schools” due to the economy aspect. One has to start wondering when it’s no longer better to choose a less expensive alternative.</p>

<p>(I should note that both of my older two who are in college had their best offers from private schools and are happily at them, but I know that’s not true for all.)</p>

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<p>I’d like to see additional information presented on what percentage of a particular state’s universities’ operating budget has been provided by state funding. Some public Us did a better job than others of self-funding through tuition, fees, and the like. For example, Oregon is near the top of this chart but the U of Oregon has relied on the state for only 6% of its operating budget. So a drastic cut in state funding there would no doubt have less impact in Oregon than in another state where state funding makes up a far greater percentage of the public U’s budgets. </p>

<p>Not saying these cuts are not all disheartening and disturbing. Just that the chart in the blog doesn’t really show the actual impact state by state. Some publics were more recession-proof than others.</p>

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<p>I’m not so sure the ‘College Confidential’ conventional wisdom is correct about this, though I do think that there’s also contradictory information about this in the news.</p>

<p>Inside Higher Ed says private non-profit colleges are seeing essentially flat enrollment (a slight .5 percent increase).</p>

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<p>At the same time, the WSJ reported about discounting at private colleges, and also had this to say, claming that enrollment deposits for seniors at some lower tier schools are significantly off.</p>

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<p>Interesting, considering the thread that appeared directly below this one (when I saw it):</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1509885-states-raise-college-budgets-after-years-deep-cuts.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1509885-states-raise-college-budgets-after-years-deep-cuts.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Maybe things are turning around.</p>