How good is the financial aid at Duke?

warblersrule
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:19:28 +0000

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Duke has a $4.4B endowment; Brown’s is only $2B. So percentage-wise, Brown is spending about twice as much of its endowment on FA as Duke. Which school do you think demonstrates a higher commitment to affordability and socioeconomic diversity?

Oh, it’s not that simple. Duke has a mission to provide financial aid to ALL of its students - not just cater to the whims of its undergrads. After all, despite all the entitled huff and puff about undergraduates on CC, they’re really only a small part of a much larger university.

What about all of the graduate students in arts & sciences, engineering, nursing, medicine, law, business, environmental science, divinity, and public policy? Do they not deserve funding as well? Duke has nearly 3 1/2 times as many grad/professional students as Brown, and such students are not cheap.

An operating budget only goes so far, and Duke’s pockets are unfortunately not unlimited. Deep, to be sure, but not unlimited.