Why are the SUNYs ranked so low?

lostaccount
Tue, 24 Mar 2015 01:20:59 +0000

Even though there used to be distinctions between various categories of university, the desire to be “more” takes over. Community colleges intended to serve local communities, those with GEDs who may want to take courses while working, want to be more then that-so instead of focusing on programs that serve local people, perhaps those that never had a chance to go to college, they aspire to be “more”. Build dorms and try to mimic 4 year colleges. The 4 year colleges try to be more-and morph into larger universities, adopt grad programs. The 4 centers strangled by budget disasters for a long time then overbuilt after the need for them to be bigger had already subsided. So now they need to fill swank dorms at a time when there is dwindling need due to decrease in college age population. So they are recruiting in places like China-anything to fill beds and seats. Wonder how much each international student is costing tax payers despite their higher tuition levels.