Saint3333 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 16, 2025 12:31 pm
The higher education landscape is changing as birthrates began to decline at pace starting in 2008 coupled with the cost of higher education. If the influx of foreign nationals also declines the percentages that pay "full tuition" will decline as well. We're likely to see more of this in the next decade, Queens and Elon are getting ahead of that trend and will take a page from corporations looking for scale and synergies.
If I could short the lower quartile of colleges around the US I'd put some money on them to follow this path or worse by 2035.
Thanks, Saint; very good perspective here. Lots of small colleges have been merging or closing down in the past 10 years. We haven't seen much of it in our area, but the northeast/midwest have seen more schools close and a handful of the financially stronger schools have merged.
