Why is NYU worth 45k a year?

y17k
Tue, 31 Jan 2006 19:25:44 +0000

ugh you people are becoming quite annoying.

NYU does have HORRIBLE financial packages, and because of this, is viewed as overpriced. It is true top 20 universities have comparable tuition costs; however, NYU only covers on avrage, 67% of the financial aid need…and most of that is in loans. In other universities, they cover close too 100%, with a majority being in grants and scholarships. For example, in most ivies, families with an income of less than 45k, get free tuition. At NYU the most they could get would be 25k, and that is EXTREMELY rare.

NYU’s endowment, while in the billions, is PATHETIC. Harvard for example has 1/5 - 1/10 the students as NYU (anybody want to look it up? I know nyu has ~20k ugrad ~ 50k students total) yet TEN TIMES the endowment of NYU. Most universities of NYU’s prestige have 10 times the endowment of NYU. The reason for this is the enormous size, and the fact its prestige has risen too fast.

NYU has horrible financial aid, and there is really nothing they can do about it at this point…now everybody, please stop being idiotic and trying to deny this.



Truer words couldn’t have been said. NYU’s endowment per student is absolutely horrible compared to Ivies (if my memory serves me correctly, NYU has around 35k per student in endowment, where is Harvard/Princeton have well over 1 million per student.)