Check placement rates before committing to OSU

osuprof
Mon, 29 Feb 2016 14:08:56 +0000

Regarding Oberlin 50 vs. a School Like Ohio State: A high tuition rate allows the former set to maintain a very different student to faculty ratio (and probably a higher ratio of staff for advising/career office). The outcomes are therefore better. And it is not just Oberlin 50: an engineering but undergrad focused and private school like Harvey Mudd also does extremely well.

The state’s decision to keep tuition low (one of the lowest in big 10), coupled together with very limited state subsidy, makes going tough. I am not saying that University absolutely cannot do better for its students with current rates, or should not be trying to do so, but it would be much easier to do so if the revenue per student was higher.