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A comment on Brown University raising $120M to eliminate all student loans. Parent comment

Re:Brown University raising $120M to eliminate all student l... by ghostbrainalpha on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @10:18AM (#15797983)
But Brown's tuition for out of state students is just under $50,000 per year per student.

Does that mean they could be paying those professors $300,000?

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Re:Brown University raising $120M to eliminate all student l... by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @10:42AM (#15798185)
Brown is private, so there is no distinction for out of state students.
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Re:Brown University raising $120M to eliminate all student l... by Retric on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @10:50AM (#15798282)
That's nominally 50k/student they can then offer scholarships so it's possibly nobody actually pays that much.

Further, just having a teacher without a classroom is not going to get you very far. Still, assuming the average student pays 1/2 that much per year they can probably cut the costs significantly.

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Re:Brown University raising $120M to eliminate all student l... by timthelion on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @10:22AM (#15798013)
Aren't there other expenses like maintaining the campus and paying for journal subscriptions and research equipment?
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Re:Brown University raising $120M to eliminate all student l... by nascar_is_bad on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @10:38AM (#15798151)
are you just listing off the things you think a university spends money on?
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