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I happen to have the EMU annual fiscal statement for FY '04 and read the articles from the Buff News about UB athletics funds.

EMU had total operating expenses of 261M of which 75M was a state appropiation.

Anyone have good numbers on their U's budgets?

I'd be very fascinated to see a couple schools especially UB, Miami, Ohio, another MI school, BSU (or NIU or BG).

I suspect that a lot of schools such as WMU, BSU, BG, NIU, etc. are pretty similar financially.

UB is the wild card. I suspect their budget is the biggest (by far?) in the MAC.
For the just-concluded academic year, Miami had an overall expenditure budget of approximately $554 million, of which only $78.5 million came from state appopriations.

The university showed a huge year-over-year increase from 2003-04 (from $414 million to $554 million) but the lion's share of the increase reflects accounting for the new tuition model, under which all students are nominally charged the same rate but Ohio kids receive scholarships equal to their share of the state appropriation plus additional "Ohio Leader Scholarships." Reflecting that, you'll see a $122 million increase in the "scholarships" detail line in the expense budget.

FWIW, university support for intercollegiate athletics was budgeted at $14.6 million, or about 2.6% of the total budget.

<a href='http://www.units.muohio.edu/bpa/FY2005/FY2005Bgt.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.units.muohio.edu/bpa/FY2005/FY2005Bgt.htm</a>
I just heard the other day than something less than25% of Kent's annual budget now comes from the state. Soon it will be Kent University and Bowling Green University because the state is just about out of the university business... 03-banghead
I thought I heard...

BG 69.5 Million
UT 78 Million
That's probably the state share.

I found a chart showing the state's contribution to the instructional budget for each Ohio school on the Ohio Board of Regents' website:

<a href='http://www.regents.state.oh.us/financial/SSI_FY04-05.pdf' target='_blank'>http://www.regents.state.oh.us/financial/S...SSI_FY04-05.pdf</a>

"Instructional," summing Oxford, Hamilton, and Middletown, appears to cover about 90% of the total state support number Miami shows in its budget.

I suspect those of you who are interested can find more details elsewhere on the Regents' website.

<a href='http://www.regents.state.oh.us' target='_blank'>http://www.regents.state.oh.us</a>
BTW, if you want to grumble a little bit, note that among the major four-year campuses everyone took a 2.64% across-the-board cut last year -- except Ohio State, which actually got a small increase. I can justify that only by arguing that they need to catch up on quality. 03-wink
Interesting. the Ohio MAC schools, except Miami and Ohio, seem to get about the same amount of state aid as EMU does from MI.

EMU is 74.9M vs 76M for BG and 80M for UT. Others roughly similar.

Miami less but Ohio more (I assume because they have a med school).

May need to check how other states, e.g., IL or IN funds their colleges.
emu steve Wrote:Miami less but Ohio more (I assume because they have a med school).
The way schools in Ohio are funded is by credit hour of instruction. As an undergraduate institution, OU is only about 17,000 which isn't much more than Miami's 15,000. OU has a much larger graduate school pushing total enrollment to 20-21k while Miami is 16,000 total. Then on top of that OU has the medical school.

On the budget cuts by the MAC schools, the state board of regents takes a look at enrollment growth or decline at all public universities, figures an average rate of growth or decline, and if a particular school is below average in growth they lose funding, if above average they gain funding. Most MAC schools had a drop in enrollment leading to a drop in state funding last year, while OSU has improved retention maintaining its elevated level of funding.

In Miami's case, they refuse to increase enrollment, so they've decided to move to a in-state tuition model which matches the state appropriation. According to the numbers provided by Devilgrad, only about 15% of Miami's funding is from the state. At OU that figure is 29% percent and it may even be a higher percentage than the gigantic OSU. Instead of moving to a reduced tuition model, OU has set a goal of expanding to 25,000 students over the next few years to increase its state appropriation, hire more professors, and double research funding. This year's freshman class has 500 more students at OU than the year before.
At the same time, however, OU receives a larger portion of its revenue from state funds than most of its peer institutions. On average, the peer schools receive about 26 percent of their revenue from their respective state governments, whereas OU receives about 29 percent from Columbus.

Where OU is lacking is in investment income, grants and contracts, and sales and services of auxiliaries and hospitals, Krendl explained.

"The other institutions have a more balanced portfolio," she said.

As the university develops a master plan, OU officials are looking for more entrepreneurial ways to generate income, and that will include removing barriers, she said. Officials are looking at the "university's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats" in this process.

<a href='http://www.athensnews.com/archives/article.php3?story_id=20765' target='_blank'>http://www.athensnews.com/archives/article...?story_id=20765</a>
<a href='http://www.ibhe.state.il.us/Fiscal%20Affairs/PDF/FY04%20Public%20University%20Rev%20%20Expend%20Rpt%20Final.pdf' target='_blank'>IL stuff in PDF</a>


See pages 21 and 37 for NIU stuff. Fiscal year '04
Ohio University Budget FY 2004-05:

Total Expenditures 557 million
Athens Campus 411 million
Regional Campuses 70 million
Medical School 29 million
Transfers Out 48 million

Total Government support (state, local, federal) 197 million

<a href='http://www.ohiou.edu/apbp/cfb2005/d1.html' target='_blank'>http://www.ohiou.edu/apbp/cfb2005/d1.html</a>
2003 - 2004 WMU Total Operating Budget $491,616,146

Haven’t seen 2004 - 2005 yet.
good data, guys.

I did note that NIU in FY '03 got 110M or 33.1% of their revenues from state appropiated funds and also note a hit in FY '04 down to 101M or approximately 30%.

I may do some checking on UB as they could be a real outlier in terms of a total budget and state funds.

I was surprised to see Ohio - Athens so high (even excluding the college of med) - over 400M in '04/'05 but still 389M in FY '4.

EMU's 261M total operating expenses is pretty small by comparison to other MAC schools. Gee, NIU was 334M for FY '04 or almost 75M more - that isn't chump change.
emu steve Wrote:I was surprised to see Ohio - Athens so high (even excluding the college of med) - over 400M in '04/'05 but still 389M in FY '4.
Another surprise for you then is OU spends a smaller percentage of its total operating budget on athletics than any other MAC school.

Just to show you where our priorities are.
With a new president, that will change. Marketing the university through athletics helps raise the profile of the school. The hiring of Solich was the first step....winning is the next.
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