Scholarship Costs?
Hi all, loyal reader here. I had always heard during my daze in Ann Arbor that Michigan was the only school in the Big Ten that paid the full cost of out of state attendance for its scholarship athletes. All other public schools in turn consider scholarship athletes State residents for tuition purposes. Can anyone confirm this?
I don't know the ins and outs of it, but wouldn't this just be accouting semantics? Free tuition is free tuition.
It makes a difference on how much LSA would receive from the athletic department, increasing one budget and reducing the other.
The value of an education is as advertised, but it doesn't really "cost" UM anything to have an athlete take classes. The prof and admin staff all get paid the same, regardless of if there is an extra seat filled and a little bit more work for employees that are getting paid the same whether or not the player is there.
It doesn't cost the University anything, but it does cost the athletic department. It pays for tuition, room and board and books. That is a real expenditure (and in fact, I believe it's the AD's biggest one, not counting the stadium renovation).
Yes, this is true, the athletic department pays LSA full out of state tuition for out of state athletes. I know not many schools do but I don't know if we are the only one.
Yeah, Tater. You're wrong.