a) lower enrollments
b) a greater number of senior administrators, or
c) a combination of the two.
For public 4-year schools, the median enrollment increased by average of 1.6% between 2004 and 2007, while the median number of senior administrators grew by an average of 1.8% annually over the same time period. For private not-for-profit schools, the median enrollment shrank by an average of 6% per year, while the median number of senior administrators grew by 3.4% annually over the time period. For the private for-profit schools, the median enrollment decreased by an average of 2.6% per year, while the number of senior administrators increased by 7% annually, since 2004.
Source of data: IPEDS
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3 comments:
Looks like the public colleges are giving the best value here -- not the privates, including the for-profits.
Depends on how you define value. Is there any analysis available on the average/median salary public vs private?
By "value" here I mean many more students per administrator at the public universities. The public universities beating the private non-profits by more than a factor of two.
Of course, some people might say that having more administrators per student is a benefit.
Having worked at both public and private universities, my view is that more administrators is not a good thing, and that the public universities give better "value" for the money they spend.
Judging by the salaries for faculty and presidents at private vs. public universities, I very much doubt that public universities pay administrative and support staff as well as private universities do.
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