(04-10-2014 10:37 AM)ken d Wrote:  It's amazing what you can find out when you challenge your own preconceived ideas. I thought Stanford was king, but Ohio State blows them out of the water. The Buckeyes have a staggering 210.5 men's scholarships, and 175 for women, for a total of 385.5. That's a whopping 10% more than the Cardinal.

Even so, due to the difference in tuition costs, Stanford's cost of scholarships is about $6 million higher than OSU's. Before we feel sorry for them, though, the income Stanford gets from its athletic endowment is much greater - enough, in fact, to fully fund its entire scholarship cost with about $15 million left over. As the saying goes, it's good to be rich!

Scholarship costs also don't represent actual costs to the university. The only cost the university to the extent that the cost of tuition covers variable costs.

I guess that's the long way of saying don't feel too bad for these universities, even the ones without Stanford-sized endowments.