Ivy League

I really don't see the point in making this thread, but since it is here, I'll write a reply.

I'm not sure about the funding of private universities in the US, but I think it's good to give private universites public funding as well. When the tuition fees are equal, people won't doubt about applying to Ivy League universities because they think they earn to less and they either don't have the money to go there (they don't know they can get good financial aid for example) or don't want to go there because they think there are too many rich snobbish people.
While the level of teaching and the community should not be changed, I think funding private universities is a good thing. It's dangers are of course that it might grow too big and accept too many underqualified when it gets loads of money, but I assume that they are very smart and keep the special community and teaching level they've got.

The amount fo money given by alumni in the US makes a mockery of the UK system. its one reason why unis here like cambridge dedicate ALOT fo resources to setting up stuff for alumini in america. they give more generously.

Ivy leagues schools DO fund people of poorer backgrounds with scholarships, which in the case of american unis and their fees are FAR more generous than UK universities.
These Scholarship funds are basically paid for not by the state (american state giving money to its citizens? that would require tax money needed for the military and breaks for the rich being diverted) but by the donations of alumni.
The amount fo money given by alumni in the US makes a mockery of the UK system. its one reason why unis here like cambridge dedicate ALOT fo resources to setting up stuff for alumini in america. they give more generously.

New York City (or it might be New York State) actually gives $1,000 per year to every college student (who's a permanent resident of New York) who maintains a B average (not very hard). It might not help if you're going to a private college, but it helps if you're going to a city (average tuition of about $4,000 a year) or a community (average tuition of about $2,500) college.

As for the original question, private universities do receive a limited amount of government funding to hand out some loans to students and to conduct some research that the government deems important.

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when you say college you mean university yes?

All i know is that the state funding of univeristies in america is pretty laughable compared to the UK, but the charitable donations/monies left in will recieved by UK universities is 100x more laughable than the american unis.

its a joke when you look at the money harvard has compared to oxford and cambridge. the government should have done something about it years ago.

Ivy leagues schools DO fund people of poorer backgrounds with scholarships, which in the case of american unis and their fees are FAR more generous than UK universities.
These Scholarship funds are basically paid for not by the state (american state giving money to its citizens? that would require tax money needed for the military and breaks for the rich being diverted) but by the donations of alumni.
The amount fo money given by alumni in the US makes a mockery of the UK system. its one reason why unis here like cambridge dedicate ALOT fo resources to setting up stuff for alumini in america. they give more generously.

When the tuition fees are equal, people won't doubt about applying to Ivy League universities because they think they earn to less and they either don't have the money to go there (they don't know they can get good financial aid for example) or don't want to go there because they think there are too many rich snobbish people.

I'm not saying that they DON'T give money to poor people, but that poor people are less likely to apply for them anyway:

I'm not saying that they DON'T give money to poor people, but that poor people are less likely to apply for them anyway:


Ok, I'm not a black guy from a Missisippi family whose mother was a drop-out and got pregnant at age 16, but I can imagine that people from there (sorry for stereotyping Missisippi people, just wanted to give an example) is less likely to APPLY for Harvard because they either don't know much about it or don't want to go there (because it has an elite reputation).
Don't know how I came to the tuition fees part. That's was a kind of nonsense, sorry.