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Originally Posted by jojo
LSU has a enrollment of 30,451 students at 8,758 dollars for a years in state tution and fees that equals 266,689,858 dollars a year just in tution, not counting tax dollars or donations. If they cannot make it on that then they dont need to be teaching business.
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What I don't understand is the fact that state funding is less than 20% of the budget, if I remember correctly. I think its less than 15% actually. If its that small an amount, can't you make that up somewhere?
The problem with shutting down any 4 year school is there will be opposition from its alumni base. Some schools need to be merged if they can't work out the budget. I mean, there are 87 public and private collegiate campuses in Louisiana (didn't know we had that many, where are they hiding???). 51 of those are public institutions.
http://www.publicagendaarchives.org/...colleges-state
Louisiana has 4.6 million people. Kentucky and South Carolina, who have similar populations sizes as Louisiana, only have 75 and 71 schools.
Its too many schools for a state our size. Hell, Colorado and Wisconsin, who have 7 and 10 million more people than Louisiana, have 75 and 77 colleges.
None of those 4 states even comes close to having as many public institutions that we have.