In reply to: St. Thomas to move from D3 to D1, joins Pioneer league in FB posted by HScorpio
so it was sort of forced upon them.
that St John's voted against that decision.
Hopefully SJU follows suit. I don't think we have the cash to do so, however (unfortunately).
St. Thomas: $500 million
St John's: $200 million
and UST has a grad school to support.
UST vs. SJU students is about a 3-1 ratio (which is largely how the other MIAC schools justified kicking them out).
The linked article suggests that graduate programs might help support undergraduate programs instead of the reverse.
but that works more in my favor, so I'll take it.
I was basically saying that their cost is higher so they need the higher endowment, but either way it works.
Well - for a comparison like this.
First off - do it dollars per student.
I could also tell you to modify it if you have more grad students than undergrads - and particularly a medical school.
Suddenly Grinnell, Williams and Amherst become "richer" than Harvard (at least if you're an undergrad).
(PS - Fr Hesburgh once told me that "the two biggest headaches for a college president is a football team and a medical school - and my football team makes up for no medical school.")
a lot less impressive once you realize that covers 8 full-service universities (3 of whom have med schools) and 6 stand-alone med schools. That's 167k undergrads and 54k grad students.