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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tufts is facing some financial headwinds.  For those who are into this, this letter from them last month gives some clarity on this issue:

https://www.tufts.edu/president/speeches-and-messages/04112024-Update-on-University-Finances

Some of the challenges aren't unique to Tufts, but it is reflective of the competition that it faces with the other Boston schools.  [/quote]

I’m not sure any of the four reasons identified in the link you posted reflects “competition that it faces with other Boston schools.”

Is the softening in the market for residential masters programs really because of prospective students opting between a middling grad program (outside of a few exceptions) at tufts and another middling program at another Boston area school? I imagine it is more likely due to a  broader weakening of demand US wide for  expensive non-MBA masters programs that saddle kids with debt and don’t yield an ROI worthy of that cost.

2 of the other 3 are purely related to inflation, which is not Tufts specific.

The increased competition for faculty *might* be because [i]faculty[/i] are choosing other schools (more likely fewer are trying to run the now near impossible tenure track gauntlet and don’t want to be paid a pittance with no job security). Tufts might very well be on the decline (or maybe not?) but the link doesn’t support the proposition that any such decline is attributable to local competition…

The bigger issue is that it, like many other non-state subsided schools or those pulling in a ton of sports-related money (eg broadcast rights), is too dang expensive if you aren’t getting a ton of aid.[/quote]

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