<p>Must be an interesting meeting. When you add the state support per student and instate tuition you get the amount UVa spends on education per student--and can see how profitable OOS kids are.</p>
<p>Tuition</a> increase looks likely at UVa. | Lynchburg News Advance</p>
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Where did you get that idea?</p>
<p>The article doesn’t mention the cost to educate, nor does it say that adding the two figures mentioned equals the cost of instruction. I don’t really have time to dig through the budgets to find you the cost to educate figure at this time of year. I leave you to find that and I’ll go back to reading apps.</p>
<p>Dean J is correct, the article wording was a bit misleading but re-rereading I agree that you can’t add the two and get the total expenses.
But the claim that the state now only funds 5% of the UVa budget is also very misleading as I have shown before.</p>
<p>Have you been able to break the statistic down for other schools so some sort of comparison can be made?</p>
<p>For one any school that includes hospital operations in the base budget will have a low number as the hospital is usually self-supporting but generates tons of patient revenue and expenses without much if any state support. Michigan is a good example. Around half their budget if for the hospitals which are not state supported. That adds a big number to the budget that is completely separate from the educational operation. Same for large federal-funded research programs. Both these items have been growing much faster than the base educational budget at most schools. Add in dorm operatons and sports and you have large self-supporting net revenue neutral operations within the overall budget. Wisconsin recently put the UW hospitals into a non-university budget independent operation ( still effectively controlled by the UW). That cut the denominator of the total UW budget by about a third so the % of state support now looks much higher than it did using the old total budget.</p>
<p>Barrons, [the</a> numbers for just the academic division are readily available](<a href=“http://www.virginia.edu/budget/operatingbudget.html]the”>http://www.virginia.edu/budget/operatingbudget.html). 11.5% of the academic division’s budget comes from the state.</p>
<p>You seem to have further broken the numbers down for UVa, taking out housing, dining, and other areas. I’m wondering if you have done the same for other schools. Without other schools’ stats, the UVa figure doesn’t really mean much in the discussions people are having on this board these days.</p>
<p>I did it for UM awhile back and it was in the same ballpark as UVa. I have not put together any major analysis of it. I only do it when somebody is putting out misleading info such as UM folks claiming only 7% or so comes from the state. Take out the hospitals and fed research and you get more like 15%.</p>
<p>PS–If you give me 10 public schools or so that you are interested in, I’d do an analysis and post it for you. Obviously some items are tough calls, but they are smaller $$$$s and won’t matter much.</p>
<p>I also commend UVa for having so much well organized data on their site.</p>