Want to know why college is so expensive? North Texas' women's soccer and track complex cost $13.6 million

13 mil seems standard, didn't UNC spend 15 mil on their track?

Isn't the bigger isuue access? Is the school going to lock the track and not let people use it at any time?

This 13.6 million complex will require an additional 1-3 million per year in maintenance, staffing, insurance and other ancillary costs

Most consumers prefer the most expensive lasik provider. Most would go for the most expensive hooker. It’s all perception based. All other things equal, the more expensive school will always be deemed as the better option

Dhdjdjjdjd wrote:

The reason college is expensive is the proliferation of deans, deanlets, diversity offices, and so on.

This and a previous post mentioning ever increasing (and ANNUAL) administrative costs. I guess all those "business" majors need jobs too.

Rojo.

Notre Dame's small track only facility costs $11 million.

How much did Texas A&M's mammoth facility cost?

$13 million for a new track and soccer facility in relative terms is the norm.

The football player only dining facility at Alabama cost around 15 million. Would like to see a typical menu. A donor, or the program itself, probably paid for it though.

bad under standing wrote:

Compared to the overpaid bureaucratic admin class at unis, this is a proverbial drop in the bucket.

And $13.6m is chump change from a rich donor.

This^^^

You're trying to get hits for your site or just not thinking too well today.

That's nothing. Look at their endowments! $309 million in endowments.

The article didn't say how it was funded but I would be willing to bet a large percentage was donation. When my school redid the track facilities it was almost if not 100% alumni funded.

Fake NEWS!

Not the greatest example wrote:

UNT is a relatively affordable school, so not the best example.

Meanwhile, the Ivies cost three times as much with worse facilities

In addition to this, Ivies have the biggest endowments. That doesn't even take into account the student enrollment. For example, Harvard has a significantly larger endowment than Ohio State despite having way less students enrolled.

Harvard endowment: $39.2 billion

Harvard undergrad enrollment: 6,700 undergrad and 15,250 grad students

Ohio State endowment: $4.2 billion

Ohio State enrollment: 52,500 undergrad and 13,900 grad students

Michigan built a multi sport athletic complex for $168 million last year. So not sure 13 million is that bad. Granted UM athletic program is a separate entity to the school and gives money back to the university each year.

rojo wrote:

https://www.dentonrc.com/sports/north-texas-nearing-completion-of-new-soccer-track-stadium/article_313e86ff-f9b0-55f7-89ea-309f72255966.html

Bargain, if included the restrooms....

Good for UNT for supporting Track and not just a fancy new football stadium

Administrative costs are huge and rapidly growing, and one thing administrators love to do is to build new buildings, with large maintenance costs. Professors have fallen back relative to other professors in salaries, by a long way, while adjuncts and grad students teach most classes for $2-3k/class. Let's say you have a 50 student class and you are making $2500. The tuition is $20,000 per year for 8 classes. 1/8 of $20k is $2500. So, one student's tuition money pays for that teacher for the class. 49 students are paying $122,500 over and above the instructor's salary for that one class.

How does someone so stupid run such a successful site?

Indoor? wrote:

Michigan built a multi sport athletic complex for $168 million last year. So not sure 13 million is that bad. Granted UM athletic program is a separate entity to the school and gives money back to the university each year.

Their endowment is currently at 11.9 Billion Dollars. Where do you think that money goes?

Their med school endowment is in the Billions!

Off his meds wrote:

How does someone so stupid run such a successful site?

The answer is: this is why this site isn't far more successful.

1/10. Stop trolling, rojo.

Actually looking up cost wrote:

Article literally summarizes (using actual data) that fancy dorms are not the reason college cost skyrocketed. Thank your state legislators instead.

Dude, Princeton (private school) was 20-25k when I went there form 1992-1996. Now it's nearly 70k.

What does that have to do with state legislators?

Ohio State is finishing a $40 million training facility for the womens lacrosse team.