(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.
I agree with this. As the father of a freshman who just stroked my first check to JMU, I can tell you I could have given a rat's @ss how the money was allocated between tuition and fees. JMU is a great bargain for the money, even compared with other state schools. I think I posted it here before, but here goes again (in state tuition and mandatory fees / full year):
College of William and Mary $22,044
Virginia Military Institute $18,214
University of Virginia $16,068
Christopher Newport University $13,654
Virginia Commonwealth University $13,624
Virginia Tech $13,230
Longwood University $12,720
University of Mary Washington $12,128
George Mason University $11,929
James Madison University $10,878
Radford University $10,627
Old Dominion University $10,350
UVA-Wise $9,825
Norfolk State University $9,036
Virginia State University $8,726