Higher Ed institutions that have merged

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Which ones have merged in the last decade or two? Effects of those institutions merging?: quality of students admitted, # of applications, programs offered, degrees + experience of professors?

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This is a rapidly growing trend. But it is generally smaller schools that admit well over 50% of applicants that are involved. It is particularly prominent in the northeast as the number of high school grads in the region is dropping.

There were a few outside of Philly that merged, and a few in NJ - Kean is merging with New Jersey City University and Bloomfield College merged with Montclair State.

Usually one school is basically acquiring the other. And the key issues are job security for faculty, admissions for students, and transferring of credits, among other things.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a rapidly growing trend. But it is generally smaller schools that admit well over 50% of applicants that are involved. It is particularly prominent in the northeast as the number of high school grads in the region is dropping.

There were a few outside of Philly that merged, and a few in NJ - Kean is merging with New Jersey City University and Bloomfield College merged with Montclair State.

Usually one school is basically acquiring the other. And the key issues are job security for faculty, admissions for students, and transferring of credits, among other things.

Yes. In Philly, St. Joe's merged with the University of the Sciences. From my understanding, some of the STEM families weren't thrilled that their kids' degrees were going to say St. Joe's. It's only made St. Joe's stronger. They were never known for STEM, and I think this is helping them tap into a new group of applicants.

Villanova ate Cabrini last year, and they just announced that they're taking over Rosemont, too. I can't see any major net benefit to Villanova ... just some extra physical facilities that they probably wanted for future growth. Villanova is super strong, though not as hot as it was a few years ago, and these were teeny colleges that were serving kind of niche populations.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a rapidly growing trend. But it is generally smaller schools that admit well over 50% of applicants that are involved. It is particularly prominent in the northeast as the number of high school grads in the region is dropping.

There were a few outside of Philly that merged, and a few in NJ - Kean is merging with New Jersey City University and Bloomfield College merged with Montclair State.

Usually one school is basically acquiring the other. And the key issues are job security for faculty, admissions for students, and transferring of credits, among other things.

Yes. In Philly, St. Joe's merged with the University of the Sciences. From my understanding, some of the STEM families weren't thrilled that their kids' degrees were going to say St. Joe's. It's only made St. Joe's stronger. They were never known for STEM, and I think this is helping them tap into a new group of applicants.

Villanova ate Cabrini last year, and they just announced that they're taking over Rosemont, too. I can't see any major net benefit to Villanova ... just some extra physical facilities that they probably wanted for future growth. Villanova is super strong, though not as hot as it was a few years ago, and these were teeny colleges that were serving kind of niche populations.

You are right - the Villanova mergers were largely real estate plays. They tried to be somewhat welcoming but I don't think they absorbed too many faculty or students. I think there might have been some pressure to help out.