The costs have become no joke. Four years at OU is now more expensive than many private schools in Ohio. When I was going to OU there were kids from my high school that attended who grew up in lower middle class households with divorced parents that had to pay their way through school. Kids like that have been priced out of the pricey residential college experience.

Free community college is being floated about as a policy area and I actually think OU relative to the urban public colleges like Cincinnati and Akron which are attracting kids because of less residential requirements. Instead of going there students might opt for the community college or go the residential route all the way but not the half way between commuter school option.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-future-of-u-s-higher-edu...

The cost to attend and have the experience is way too much currently. The pandemic has shown another way to complete your degree and community colleges look to benefit. There will be a purging in Athens and other places to right size the new demand, which will be much less than before.

Name one.

The tuition numbers are interesting. So, OSU costs the average student roughly 20% less than Ohio or Fiami, and that's not inconsequential as it equals roughly 16K to 20K over the course of an undergrad's education. Next, I looked at the base non discounted tuition cost differential.

Ohio 12,612
OSU: 11,084
Fiami: 15,911 (As usual, they're going for image over reality)

OSU's base tuition is only 12% less than Ohio's. So, it's no surprise that the richer school can offer more aid to extend that bargain from 12 to 20 percent.

Fiami does seem to be throwing a lot of money at aid to draw that (ridiculously) high tuition down to Ohio's level. And they have that built in base of affluent kids who are willing to pay an overpriced price in order to get trained in the douchebag arts.

Thinking about this on a strategic level though, ANY school in Ohio that's attempting to charge more than the highest ranked, most selective state school that offers the full-blown residential, Big Ten experience is playing a fool's gambit that's bound to fail. The way for Ohio to compete is to be the more affordable option to OSU. Fiami lives in their own little world. Personally, I think it's a house of cards waiting to come crashing down. How long can they troll the Chicago suburbs with their 40 year old "public ivy" book trying to lure preppy business majors who didn't get into Illinois or Wisconsin.