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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And yet, some of these more remote areas help the campuses have a distinct feel (compared to urban campuses) and the lower cost-of-living helps their finances.

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Yet Notre Dame likes to pretend it is on the same financial level as Georgetown or Boston College (MUCH more expensive cities) and charge equally exorbitant tuition when, yes, of course, cost of living in South Bend is MUCH, much less.  Blegh.  Get over yourself, ND.  (And I'm from a big, multigenerational, ND family.)[/quote]

Why would the cost of education at a private school be lower in a low COL area aside from housing?  You still have the same costs for attracting high caliber faculty (sometimes the only way to draw faculty to live in South Bend is being paid on par or better as faculty in higher COL areas plus other perks), pay for the same services and infrastructure, pay for the same administrative costs, etc.[/quote]

Oh, please, do you really think admin help or entry level workers or grounds people are paid the same as in DC? No. [/quote]
why would they be? [/quote]

Is that the bulk of the cost of educating people though?  I would think the salaries for facilities, class room resources, IT infrastructure, library infrastructure, student health, salaries for tenured faculty as well as administrators (not admin help, like the provost, etc.), etc. all ads up to more than the grounds people and so on.  Also, just glancing at graduate stipends, they tend to be closer to schools in higher COL areas/other private schools than public schools in similar COL areas.  Notre Dame has also bought a significant amount of land in South Bend to build various facilities, infrastructure, dorms, and athletic related areas that a school in a city would not have the opportunity to purchase due to real estate costs.  This is just to say I think that the cost of a private education is a lot more complex than the cost of the entry level workers.[/quote]

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