(08-10-2019 11:18 AM)DavidSt Wrote: NYU
51,848 students enrolled in fall 2018.
endowment over $4 billion close to $5 billion.
athletics spending:$7,182,523.
No, they are not a sports University. They are a very different animal, more like the European Urban Universities. There is no campus life, rather the city life. Even the Boston schools like Northeastern, BU and Harvard have more life in them. This is a case where total number of students (25,175 undergrads, about 58% women) is the only metric that says possible. But the lifestyle is just so different, living in high rises, riding the subway to school, no Greek row, none of the usual rallying points. (A "slumming" version of this type of school is SF State, where 3rd tier students from the city take Muni to class, and only 5% live on or near campus; those being well over 1/3rd foreign students -- I mention this because you have brought them up before as well)
(08-10-2019 06:17 AM)whittx Wrote: RIT. They have proven they can raise money to improve facilities and athletics, have nearly 16,000 undergrads and $1 billion endowment, and are already D1 in hockey. I could see them in America East or (eventually) as an A-10 school.
This is actually a decent possible:
Number of Full-time Undergraduates: 12,435 (Men: 8,387, Women: 4,048)
$6,603,812 budget
346 men (499 with duplicates in 2nd sports), 229 women (299 with duplicates) participate in athletics
However, they have only 4 full time coaches: Men's Ice Hockey, Women's Ice Hockey, Men's Lacrosse, Men's Soccer (?). Almost $4M of the budget is in Ice Hockey (60%), and it is the only sport with attendance. The other sports when you remove general overhead of $1.6M, get only about $1M split among them. This shows with 2 of the 4 full time coaches being Ice Hockey. No full timers for Basketball, Basketball, Volleyball, Softball or other conference sports.
This looks like a Hockey only school. D-III works for them, because a lot of young men who are good in Math and Science like to play sports, but D-I would preclude them from playing. RIT is about attracting Engineers and Scientists, not jocks. So while plausible on the overall number count, the specifics point to them staying D-III.
But a better candidate than others I've seen thrown out.