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Jul 12, 2019
4:41:54pm

bluegato All-American

Forbes ranks BYU #1 for best value.

America’s Best Value Colleges 2019 - Top 50

Suddenly, higher education seems in need of damage control. Along with skyrocketing costs—an approximate 200% increase in one generation—and grim student-debt figures—an average $28,650 per borrower and a cumulative $1.5 trillion—there’s the recent college admissions cheating and bribery scandal. Al

https://www3.forbes.com/leadership/americas-best-value-colleges-2019-top-50/51/

Pretty cool. Pretty impressive.

Utah was 39th I think.

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Forbes ranks BYU #1 for best value.

bluegato

7/12/19 4:41pm

Thanks LDS Church and its enormous subsidization!

Indy Coug

7/12/19 4:44pm

Anyone here know a ballpark for how much per student is subsidized?

AggieWeekendCougar

7/12/19 4:54pm

Roughly 70 percent.

gwalker

7/12/19 5:02pm

I heard years ago from a BYU official that the Church subsidized about 70% of the total tuition costs

Zenoch

7/12/19 5:03pm

I guess that means the Church runs a bit tighter ship than I would have thought

AggieWeekendCougar

7/12/19 5:07pm

Several years ago I heard $10k/student

Thrill

7/12/19 5:37pm

Can’t imagine anywhere else even remotely close

cougfanz

7/12/19 4:48pm

I mean, technically if you think of tithing as part of your tuition then you never stop paying for school

DKN

7/12/19 5:02pm

But the blessings also never stop

Punk Philosopher

7/12/19 6:45pm

Forbes calls it Brigham Young University-Provo. Just sayin

idacoug

7/12/19 5:04pm

Apparently, some BYU-I student managed to get hired at Forbes.

CougarThug

7/12/19 5:17pm

Which is directly contrary to what current church leaders say about the name.

Oranje

7/12/19 5:59pm

Even Forbes has ignorant people. Just sayin.

Acorn

7/12/19 6:07pm

Higher education simply overcharges for their services. It's robbery.

HighHorse

7/12/19 5:18pm

We hear daily about the rising cost of this or that, but we NEVER hear

rockhound

7/12/19 5:32pm

huh? Bernie and a number of Dems talk about it all the time.

Martin Van Nostrand

7/12/19 5:41pm

Let's say that it is not talked about by anyone with any financial

rockhound

7/12/19 5:47pm

that's pretty subjective. I get not agreeing with their answers, but there are

Martin Van Nostrand

7/12/19 5:50pm

Probably because they think the wealth is trickling down

letthewookiewin

7/12/19 5:59pm

This was called...Anyone? Something d-o-o economics... Anyone? Voodoo economics

Goliath

7/12/19 7:07pm

Gotta pay those administrators to do nothing

maxpowers

7/12/19 7:33pm

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