Blake Ellis wrote,
"With church membership dwindling and more families struggling to afford the cost of college, many private religiously-affiliated colleges and universities are slashing tuition and offering incentives to attract new students -- and to stay afloat.
Some Christian colleges are cutting tuition by double-digit percentages, while others are capping the price of admission for all four years or offering huge discounts based on academic performance."
These reduced costs come at the price of reduced financial aid and scholarships offered. Also, cost cuts are made all around the universities.
Now some students worry about how attending a smaller private college might affect their ability to find a good job. In order to combat this some of the colleges are cutting out Bible or Christian from their names.
"Johnson Bible College, in Knoxville, Tenn., for example, changed its name to 'Johnson University' earlier this year to 'eliminate barriers that our students and graduates often face,' the college's president Gary Weedman said in a statement on the school's website."
Overall the idea of cutting tuition is very appealing to students, but one has to decide what is worth reducing in order to facilitate the lower costs.
Check out the article, Want Cheaper Tuition? Find Religion, and tell me what you think. Should MNU apply any of the ideas or concepts presented?
Cutting tuition is always a good idea to attract new students, but how many students can it really attract if the cut isn't significant. I'm definitely all for it in every aspect, I was just wondering what universities are looking for in terms of numbers when they do this.
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