Another significant decline in enrollment.

https://www.athensnews.com/news/campus/ohio-university-se...

Great question Ted. Based on this article about BG for last year over the previous year, I'd say we are losing market share.

https://bgindependentmedia.org/bgsu-reports-higher-enroll... /

Something tells me that $19 Million budget deficit projection could be significantly higher. The answer will probably be laying off more full-time profs and cutting programs, while hiring or maintaining more of that upper management and a big bonus to the President for steering the University through the trouble ;-)

The article answers an earlier question that I had, which none of us could answer. OHIO University is down 5,000 students since 2017. That is system wide.

Add to that information that applications are down another 10% from this time last year.

Yikes, Alan and Billy, that's more than a little disconcerting. As for any decline in foreign students, I do know that some countries can pull whole segments of their students out of a university. A couple of years ago, Wittenberg got an out of the blue call from the government of Saudi Arabia announcing that after talking with their students they preferred a warmer location, thus a few hundred students were then sent to Florida. A few hundred students is a big deal to Wittenberg. We always seem to have a good number of students from Southeast Asia, but I am not sure if that is still true or not.

OCF, I am kinda out of the loop on who the political players might be i.e. important colleges and majors, are you at liberty to say what majors those might be? Is there any particular major and or college whose reputation has fallen recently? Again those numbers are more than a little disconcerting.

Thanks Alan, I will check it out!

First reaction is to take shots at Nellis, and maybe they're warranted. But, what are some solutions to this problem? How do we entice a new generation to be drawn to our university?

Do we re-hype our party school image? It set us apart and may have drawn some to the school (it certainly had me interested 20+ years ago).

Should the journalism school be repurposed or at least look at ways to change the format? Pair with social media companies to re-brand the program?

We've identified the problem (lack of interest in our product). The question is, what's the solution?

There are fewer college age kids, state and region wide and that won't change anytime soon. The Journalism and English departments were always well thought of and yet those majors, as well as some others are going through a great deal of transition, which could lower numbers.

Some anecdotal points, a colleague has made a couple points to me for sometime, I have no idea if he is correct but he certainly rubs elbows with those who should know. He claims international students, whether by their choice or their government's choice are increasingly going to schools in the South and West, and of course those who can will always go to the Ivy League schools if possible. He claims, with the exception of the Ivy League, that the days of schools outside the South and West getting the numbers of international students they once did are over.

Also, schools like Columbus State are increasingly partnering with employers like Honda to get kids a two year associates degree (paid by Honda) and then put them into apprentice programs where they can either work on the factory floor with credentials to move up or continue to other schools for two more years to fulfill their Bachelor requirements. The same goes for Amazon and a myriad of IT companies.

I think all of these factors are contributing to declining numbers not only for us, but many other schools as well.

Doesn't really matter. Colleges are drawing from the same pool no matter the size of that pool and if college A is seeing an increase in enrollment and college B is seeing a decrease, that's a loss of market share for college B.

So if every school in Ohio is seeing similar reduction in enrollment, doesn't that suggest the market itself is shrinking, not necessarily market share?

If that's true, it makes sense Miami is trying to attract out of state students (expand the market area).

BG is up.

https://www.bgsu.edu/news/2019/09/bowling-green-state-uni...

If BG is up in enrollment, why is Pride saying their situation is dire?