Forbes-if colleges were stocks

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@tk21769

The echo boom of college-age American students is subsiding. Some small colleges may well be hurt by a resulting drop in demand. It may stand to reason that the most expensive of these schools will be hurt the most. However, so far at least, I don’t see it happening.

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<p>Unlikely at the “top [whatever]” schools that are the most desired ones that will always have enough applicants.</p>

<p>But it may be that the less selective and desired private schools with small endowments are the ones most at risk. These are probably schools that most people outside the local area have not heard of. There have been past articles and threads about schools cutting tuition or offering more scholarships in order to attract students. For example: <a href=“5 colleges slashing tuition - Seton Hall University (1) - CNNMoney”>http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/pf/1111/gallery.colleges_lower_tuition/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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@makennacompton

The Forbes article inlclude Princeton as one of those great universities with engineering, medicine and business schools. It has none of these.

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<p>Princeton does have engineering, although it does not have medicine or business.</p>

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@makennacompton

Princeton is really only a large-scale LAC, a mere multiple of Amherst.

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<p>Princeton offers PhD study, and PhD students function as TAs for discussions associated with large lectures; these characteristics are not LAC-like.</p>