Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Declining state funding.

In such a government environment, the only public universities that can survive and maintain a high reputation are large research universities.

Federal research funding brings them plenty of money (the schools take a cut out of research grants won by professors) and the large student population keeps the state government happy (they are educating more people on a lower budget due to fixed costs).

+1 Not coincidentally, Republicans have been in charge of the state legislature in Ohio since 1994.

Jesus Christ.

Does he not like Miami of Ohio?

OSU has a big football program that can draw out of state kids.

Schools like Alabama, Auburn and even Ole Miss have taken its' place as a rich kid party school.

The Midwest has been depopulating since the 80s especially Ohio.

There are other state universities like UCincinatti that can attract out of state interest.

It was never that good of a school. People that went there tried to talk it up as top tier, but once they got out into the real world, they realized it it's a substandard school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The demand seems to be for big warm climate schools.

+1. Presumably rich preppy kids don't want to live in the isolated, cold, grey, and declining Rust Belt? It's not like you can keep it a secret how awesome the warm weather South and coasts are from sheltered Midwest kids anymore. They have snapchat, tiktok, youtube, and instagram.

For goodness sake, the South was never any kind of "secret." I grew up in suburban Chicago and did not know one kid who hadn't been to Florida at least once on vacation (most had gone many times). Granted, I didn't know anyone who had gone on vacation to Alabama or Mississippi, but then again, why the heck would they have? We knew how backwards they were.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The demand seems to be for big warm climate schools.

+1. Presumably rich preppy kids don't want to live in the isolated, cold, grey, and declining Rust Belt? It's not like you can keep it a secret how awesome the warm weather South and coasts are from sheltered Midwest kids anymore. They have snapchat, tiktok, youtube, and instagram.

Lol the dc rich kids are the sheltered ones.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Declining state funding.

In such a government environment, the only public universities that can survive and maintain a high reputation are large research universities.

Federal research funding brings them plenty of money (the schools take a cut out of research grants won by professors) and the large student population keeps the state government happy (they are educating more people on a lower budget due to fixed costs).

+1 Not coincidentally, Republicans have been in charge of the state legislature in Ohio since 1994.

Jesus Christ.

It’s the truth. Republicans want to defund education from K-5 to colleges. Rid their states of those pesky “woke” values.

They don't have high-level D1 sports. Dumb rich Greek life kids want high-profile sports, so they go to the Big Ten or southern SEC schools

Anonymous wrote:The demand seems to be for big warm climate schools.

+1. Presumably rich preppy kids don't want to live in the isolated, cold, grey, and declining Rust Belt? It's not like you can keep it a secret how awesome the warm weather South and coasts are from sheltered Midwest kids anymore. They have snapchat, tiktok, youtube, and instagram.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Declining state funding.

In such a government environment, the only public universities that can survive and maintain a high reputation are large research universities.

Federal research funding brings them plenty of money (the schools take a cut out of research grants won by professors) and the large student population keeps the state government happy (they are educating more people on a lower budget due to fixed costs).

+1 Not coincidentally, Republicans have been in charge of the state legislature in Ohio since 1994.

Jesus Christ.

This kind of post can really upset folks who have kids going there in the Fall - I have no knowledge of the school either way, but just wish the best of any graduating HS kids going there and am sure they will find their place and get a good education...if they work for it.

Anonymous wrote:I’m guessing the decision by Ohio State to become a competitive academic school had a real affect. No?

def my guess. OSU took a page out of the Michigan playbook.

Growing up in Michigan, my understanding was that Miami was the top for the region. Definitely a place that attracted my more affluent class mates. I assumed it was private. Friends from Ohio also said same. I was surprised to learn how the perception of it had changed when my kids started looking for schools. Agree that not being a top research school has probably affected its finances coupled with the decline in state funding across the board. And students do seem interested in schools in or adjacent to metro areas. Neither of my DCs went that route, but know it is a thing.

I’m guessing the decision by Ohio State to become a competitive academic school had a real affect. No?

Wow! I’m a Miami grad from the mid ‘80s, and it was the hardest state school in Ohio to get into then.

Yes, it’s surrounded by cornfields, but I loved the campus and surrounding woods. And while it was overwhelming preppy, there were plenty of pockets of those of us who weren’t into Greek life.

Greek Life feels like a conservative thing