Vedder in U.S. News | Small Private Colleges Will Struggle

Dr. Richard Vedder

U.S. News quoted Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, in a Associated Press story headlined “Small Private Colleges Attracting Fewer Students.”

The Boston Globe reports undergraduate enrollment trends at 118 four-year private colleges in the region show one out of five of those colleges have had an enrollment drop of at least 10 percent….

Retired Ohio University economics professor Richard Vedder predicts 500 U.S. colleges will close in the next decade, leaving large, private Ivy League schools safe, along with public colleges. Tinier schools like Eastern Nazarene College, Marlboro College and Boston Architectural College will struggle.

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