This Week In College Viability (TWICV) for September 16, 2024

Welcome to the Sep 16 TWICV podcast.

It is still summer in St. Louis. High 80’s most of this week.  With any luck, the St. Louis Cardinals will be put out of their playoff hope misery shortly.  

And colleges continue to announce positive enrollment stories.  ‘New enrollment record’, ‘Biggest class ever’ are just some of the typical headlines.

That’s fine.  Colleges can spin the vague enrollment measure as much as they want.

If you haven’t discovered Matt Hendrick’s PDS research tool, you need to do so.  It quickly and simply visualizes 7 acute financial indicators.  Matt also created a measure that lets users compare their college’s finances to a set of 9 recently-closed private colleges.   Just looking at the 7 visualizations can give you a quick read on any private colleges financial health and viability.  Here is a link to Matt's viz tool.

What I have discovered is that the true financial health of a college is nowhere close to being accurately represented by its enrollment numbers.

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