Instructional Spending Per Student

rjkofnovi
Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:53:41 +0000

“How does UCLA spend twice as much as Cal? I wonder! Could it be because Cal has no medical school or hospital, which usually costs anywhere from 50-75% of a university’s total operating budget, and UCLA is actually including the cost of its medical complex in its calculation? That is unusual for a public university. Generally speaking, only private universities take such misleading, self-serving, and cavalier liberties with data.”

It appears UCLA is gaming the system to appeal to USNWR ranking metrics. Is it any wonder why they are climbing the undergraduate ratings there? This thread also proves that spending/student is difficult to measure because so many universities/colleges are not honest when it comes to reporting figures.