This year the University of Virginia’s applicant pool increased to 51,000, breaking school records for the second year in a row. Virginia Tech also broke a record with 45,000 applicants.
Other state schools have not been as fortunate. In four years the number of students at Radford has shrunk by 23%, Longwood 22%, Mary Washington 17%, and Christopher Newport has lost 10% of its student body.
Low-income families have been harder hit by the pandemic than the wealthy. Community college enrollments in Virginia have dropped 14%, 23,000 students.
The average cost to attend a Virginia university is $13,000 for tuition and fees and another $12,000 for room and board. Those costs increased by 40% between 2009 and 2018 with little increase since then.
More information here at RTD.
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Well… the CCP certainly sends UVa a lot of students… I guess the academic industry needs to attract more of them to Radford et al…. but the CCP doesn’t pay for English majors.. they pay for students to be in hard science and bring back the research to the mother country!
Another industry in the US that is helping the CCP…. but Radford is of no value for that. They target the major research universities…
Recently Nature has decided that they are going to gather data on the race and sex of the authors for research. Affirmative Action comes to academia! So the value of US universities to the Chinese will drop as they develop their own system… Han Chinese could give a crap about systematic racism… they are there to win. That means hard ass competition…
it’s also some of these schools have a rep for graduating people who can only get jobs at Starbucks. My son went to Tech and got a job even before he graduated because they have a top-tier hospitality and hotel program, and he took a dual major in Management (HR) and is an employed HR professional to this day. GMU and Tech are loaded with pragmatic majors. W&M and Virginia, too, but the prestige of these schools is such that you can major in English or Classics and get to a top law school. So, whats going on here is parents are getting wise to the fact that it’s more important for your kid to get a job for all that money
Is there a similar graphic for Virginia’s private colleges. Might make for interesting comparison.