Bridgewater College in Virginia and Wartburg College in Iowa are two of the latest institutions to announce drastic cuts to their tuition sticker prices.
Two small, private colleges, Bridgewater College in Virginia and Wartburg College in Iowa, recently announced drastic reductions in tuition prices—by 62 percent and 48 percent, respectively—starting next fall. The majority of their students won’t see much of a change in their actual bills, however.
That’s because relatively few students at the two institutions, as is true at many colleges and universities, were paying the advertised sticker price. Many were already benefiting from generous scholarships and financial aid packages that made their net tuition costs far less. While some critics have characterized tuition resets as pricing gimmicks, they’ve become more common in the last decade, and especially since the pandemic.
And as an expected enrollment cliff looms large, more colleges may look to this increased cost transparency as a strategy for attracting more students. While it’s far from clear that tuition resets can guarantee an enrollment bump, they do offer one potential way to address the increasing public skepticism about the value of higher education.
Nothing makes me happier than the thought of the academic frauds at Salisbury University having to eat cat food to survive. Most colleges are a scam and we all know it. Go get the credentials to get the job and that’s it. The point of the university was to make well rounded and educated liberal arts students (liberal in the true sense, not the American left sense). We were to read latin and greek, read the great books of western civ including the Bible, and make wise decisions about your and your county’s future.
Now, kids basically go to have sex and smoke weed. They are taught to hate religion, western civ, and everything that is good. Fine. I hope every university in the United States shutter their door forever.
Ha! I went to SSC from ’72 to ’73. I believe my tuition costs were around $250 each semester. Freshman year was just a rehash of 10th grade (and my JMB teachers were far superior!). Funny thing is, the part-time job I took to pay my tuition was much more rewarding than going to class, so I dropped out. 5 years later, I was making more money than a tenured professor at said college. Live & learn…
Well said and spot on.
Yep !!! Biden LOST !!!! Now you all have to Pay your way like the rest of us who could not afford college !!!!!!!!
Equality Wins over BIDEN !!!!
With everything online anymore, who needs a brick and mortar institution? Besides the salary of the professors, and maybe some instructional materials, what else do you need?
Many of you seem too think that the main purpose of a college education is to prepare you for a job/career. It’s not. It’s to teach you to think. Unfortunately, that has been almost entirely lost. And with that, we will continue to decline.
Close. It IS to teach you how to think, but more importantly, it was to teach you a little humility and gratefulness. Look at all the people who suffered and died since the beginning of history so you could sit in a warm well lit room and read a book quietly. It was to teach you to understand a philosophy, be it Christian or pagan or whatever- to UNDERSTAND it BEFORE you tear it down or try to change it. It was to make you see your place in the great parade of man- standing on the shoulders of giants but also wary of the legacy you WILL leave behind.
Compare that to todays college/ How many school still give out empty promises of a ‘good paying job” in the future? A good paying job is important, but being a good person is MORE important. Anyway, college today is a scam.