<p>In any case, the main effect if the State slashes Pitt’s funding is that in-state students will pay much more for tuition. That is the main use of the state funding right now - to subsidize the costs of in-state students. </p>
<p>If a university would go half-public and half-private, the programs that have the highest demand and the most research dollars would go private. There are more prospective students who are more willing to pay high tuition for Pitt’s engineering program than for a sociology major.</p>