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RE: US News: UC clocks in at #139
(09-13-2019 12:33 PM)Former Lurker Wrote: (09-13-2019 11:25 AM)dubcat14 Wrote: (09-13-2019 10:35 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote: (09-12-2019 04:02 PM)UCbball21 Wrote: Does anyone have any insights on the current long-term plan for enrollment? How many students is the main campus planning on supporting?
This is an issue, and a bigger one that many might think.
Two years ago, I tried to rank universities by density. Students per acre. I didn't check every school & I only looked at main campuses, but this is the list I came up with:
universities ranked by students/acre
642 - Depaul ( 36 acres, 23110 students )
565 - Portland State ( 50 acres, 28,241 students )
344 - Temple ( 115 acres, 39,515 students )
324 - Cincinnati ( 137 acres, 44,338 students )
267 - UW-Milwaukee ( 104 acres, 27,813 students )
218 - NYU ( 230 acres, 50,027 students )
217 - Pitt ( 132 acres, 28,617 students )
217 - Cal State San Francisco ( 134 acres, 29,045 students )
209 - San Jose State ( 154 acres, 32,154 students )
207 - Cleveland State ( 85 acres, 17,620 students )
170 - Cal State Fullerton ( 236 acres, 40,235 students )
159 - Cal State Los Angeles ( 175 acres, 27,827 students )
138 - USC (Southern California) ( 308 acres, 42,469 students )
134 - Wayne State ( 203 acres, 27,298 students )
129 - Marquette ( 93 acres, 12,002 students )
127 - Boise State ( 175 acres, 22,259 students )
123 - San Diego State ( 283 acres, 34,688 students )
122 - Tulane ( 110 acres, 13,449 students )
119 - Illinois-Chicago ( 244 acres, 29,048 students )
114 - Cal State Long Beach ( 330 acres, 37,776 students )
113 - Arizona ( 380 acres, 43,088 students )
113 - Cal State Northridge ( 353 acres, 39,916 students )
107 - UCLA ( 419 acres, 44,947 students )
104 - Georgia State ( 518 acres, 54,000 students )
104 - Akron ( 218 acres, 22,619 students )
103 - UM-KC ( 157 acres, 16,160 students )
102 - Nevada ( 209 acres, 21,353 students )
102 - Sacramento ( 300 acres, 30,510 students )
100 - Harvard ( 210 acres, 21,000 students )
Obviously research intensive schools have a higher employee-to-student ratio. For example, Harvard & Akron have similar # of students but Harvard has to find offices & labs for 16,000 employees compared to Akron's 3,500 (and about 40% of Akron's are part time).
I was looking at this a few years back (specifically Walsh compared to UC) when a relative enrolled at Walsh up in Canton. On their recruiting pamphlet they noted the campus size as 136 acres which is almost identical to UC but they only have 2,300 undergrads. I was amazed and tried to imagine UC's campus with so few people on it and it'd be a ghost town.. then looked into whether UC's student body/acreage was normal.
Spoiler alert.. it's not. UC needs to eventually look into getting out of its 4 main street enclosure (Clifton/MLK/Jefferson/Calhoun) if it's going to keep expanding. What's going on with the piece of property just west of Vine between Calhoun and McMillan? Last I heard, Metro was going to turn it into a massive bus hub.
On the contrary, I think many students who choose UC do so because they like its urban setting, and don't want to be on a traditional campus like that of OSU.
Does UC really feel that "urban?" The biggest land use in the surrounding neighborhoods is single-family houses, and the second biggest is parks. Sure, it's more urban than OSU or Dayton, but it's not exactly Brooklyn or Chicago's Miracle Mile. It's not even Wrigleyville. There's not even any rail or subway lines.
I've only visited a couple dozen schools, but UCLA feels just as urban to me as UC. Marquette & Boston University actually seemed more urban than UC.
But none of those have anywhere near the space constraints UC does on our main campus. We've actually done really well with what little space we have. Not only does UC fit more students per acre, we also managed to fit all the facilities for an FBS sports program.
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