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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]JMU is losing students to big out of state schools, so they are admitting students that 10 years ago would have gone to CNU, Radford, etc.

https://www.breezejmu.org/news/investigations-2020-enrollment-rate-fluctuates-brushes-against-goals/article_2dba1734-d524-11ea-8e84-13ead8c0e900.html

JMU simply can’t counter these “really nice” scholarship offers, Walsh explained. The university’s key competitors for out-of-state students, like Clemson and Penn State, are prepared to give 56-60% of the out-of-state students they recruit merit aid, which is need-blind aid given based on a student’s academic performance, while JMU offers merit aid to roughly 15% of their out-of-state recruits, Walsh said.

Perrine said JMU regularly competes for out-of-state students with schools that have been around longer and have significantly larger endowments than JMU. This endowment disparity means that [b]JMU often can’t match the financial aid incentives given to these students, offering on average $6,000-12,000 to out-of-state students that received an average of $18,000 from competing universities, Walsh said[/b]. [/quote]
Clemson and Penn St OOS tuition are both around $42k.  JMU is $32k. Saying this as a JMU grad, but I think kids would just rather attend PSU or Clemson.[/quote]

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