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Message: [QUOTE="mscanlo, post: 742875, member: 830"] i did not go to SU, and i know people are caught up in rankings, but at the end of the day, the education you got did not deteriorate because SU slid down 10 spots, or however may spots they slid. i know it is easy to get caught up in the rankings, and it might persuade some potential students to choose one school after another and thus have impact on getting the best and brightest kids to your school, but at the end of the day, outside the top 20-30, the rankings really don't matter. your education is still what it is. if some potential recruiter/company/school biased for/against your school because it is 60 rather than 48, it would be very naive. also, in terms of overspending, i went to a school that literally does not stop building. i have never not seen a crane on the campus. i actually believe the school tore down a building that was a couple years old, only to build another one in it's place. i'm not saying i agree with the spending, but it is an arms race to attract the best students, donors to build up the endowment, etc. in terms of price of the education, i don't necessarily agree with the the tuition increases, and probably will be complaining a lot more when i have kids ready fro school (i believe i read somewhere that tuition prices have increased 10%+ every year, even in the recession, which outpaces a lot of things ie. wages,). however, the tuition price is part of the marketing package. if syracuse, being a private school, cut their tuition to $25k a year, a lot of people would think (again, think marketing perception here) the education itself was inferior since duke, harvard, princeton, and other top schools charge $55k+, and thus a lot of people would be turned off by syracuse's inferior tuition equates to inferior education. [/QUOTE]

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