(09-12-2017 12:07 PM)Potomac Wrote:  Yeah, people see the total dollar amount and say, "oh my god, how dare they!". They don't bother to do the math and see that isn't not even as expensive per student as other universities at the D1 level and those schools are doing a whole lot less with their athletic buck too.

A lot of message board critics fail to point out that JMU has over 21k students enrolled. They think we're a 6k or 10k school just because we're not in the P5.

Any chance can you provide a source for that information? I fully understand that each state/school is a little different but I mean come on, I couldn't find a single school with a higher amount per student.

First source isn't perfect as it uses 5 years (2010-2014) of student fees, and I'm using more recent student population. With that said, it isn't even close.
http://projects.huffingtonpost.com/proje...scorecards

JMU: 145M subsidy, 21.3k students, $1,369 per student per year

The schools below average $796 per student per year.
W&M: 58.9M, 8.6k, $1,369
Eastern Michigan: 120.8M, 21.6k, $1,118
ODU: 131.9M, 24.9k, $1,059
Middle Tenn: 95.5, 19.6k, $974
Bowling Green: 70.3M, 16.9k, $831
Morehead: 43.7M, 10.6k, $824
Akron: 102.8M, 25.1k, $819
Stony Brook: 98.8M, 25.2k, $784
Buffalo: 110.5M, 29.8k, $741
Ball State: 80.2M, 21.9k, $732
EKU: 52.3M, 14.3k, $731
Central Michigan: 93.6M, 26.9k, $695
Ohio University: 99M, 29.2k, $678
Ga State: 104.7M, 32k, $654
App State: 50.2M, 18.3k, $548
Rutgers: 172M, 66k, $521
GA Southern: 46.8M, 20.5k, $456

So then I went to the trusty USA Today report that every loves. I filtered on the subsidy amount to get the highest fees first. So these are probably the highest of the highs. STILL not a single one is even close to JMU via this source (1.8k) or even the other source (1.4k).

JMU: 38.1M, 21.3k, $1,788
ODU: 28.7M, 24.9k, $1,152
UDel: 28.0M, 22.7k, $1,233
Umass: 34.4M, 28.6k, $1,202
Conn: 35.3M, 32k, $1,103
Stony Brook: 26.8M, 25.2k, $1063
Towson: 23.7M, 22.3k, $1,062
Rutgers: 28.6M, 66k, $433