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Ryan M Allen's avatar

Here is a bit on US News and our ranking at Soka. The uni had a top-25 ranking in past years actually (before I arrived): https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/10/30/us-news-rankings-erase-international-students-opinion

Glad to connect with more higher ed people here on Substack. I'm enjoying your posts! I just started here after jumping ship from Twitter finally. https://collegetowns.substack.com/

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Stephen Day's avatar

"Why charge tuition at all if you have a huge endowment" is something I've wondered, so thanks for answering it.

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Jessica Hoel's avatar

You are most welcome! Thanks for reading!

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Pryce Davies's avatar

Very insightful series! Just a note on Soka University. They are run by SGI, a religious organization with dubious financial practices, hence the anomalous endowment.

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Jessica Hoel's avatar

Thanks! Very interesting about Soka University. I was puzzling over them this week because they have the highest percentage of money spent on institutional support of any school in my dataset. (I would attach a picture here, but apparently Substack isn't set up for that.) Thanks for reading!

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