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Local colleges

Posted: June 3rd, 2018, 8:45 am
by knowitall
Bishop McCort has an ad in today’s Trib announcing its graduation class and its post graduation plans.  Most of its students are continuing on to college.  I took interest in where they are going and not going.

15 students will attend UPJ, six Pitt, six IUP, four Slippery Rock, three Penn State and three WVU.  At least two students have chosen to attend Ohio State, Kent State and Shippensburg.

Seven students will attend Duquesne.  What I found particularly interesting is that only two students chose to attend St. Francis and Mt. Aloysius while only one chose to attend Seton Hill and no one chose to attend St. Vincent.  That can’t be good news for the admission departments at those four Catholic colleges located within an hour’s drive of Johnstown.

Re: Local colleges

Posted: June 3rd, 2018, 1:16 pm
by konjo78
With how small BMs class is they are doing just fine if no one from BM is going go them.

Re: Local colleges

Posted: June 3rd, 2018, 1:21 pm
by deepcreek
sign of the times.  In 20 years there may no longer be Catholic high schools in Johnstown, Ebensburg, or Greensburg

Re: Local colleges

Posted: June 3rd, 2018, 2:25 pm
by knowitall
BM will graduate about 80 not counting the Wus, Chus, Zhus and Lius.  

Having only 5 of those grads attending the local Catholic colleges has me slightly more concerned about them than BM or GCC.

Re: Local colleges

Posted: June 3rd, 2018, 3:00 pm
by El-Moldo
The question is, why are BM students not CHOOSING the four local Catholic colleges? The price difference between public and private college tuition is night and day. It's a small fortune to attend these colleges for 4 years. And this doesn't include any post-graduate college education.

Re: Local colleges

Posted: June 3rd, 2018, 7:08 pm
by El-Moldo
Most recent tuitions (per year) for Duquesne, St. Francis, St.Vincent, Mt. Aloysius
...Duquesne 36,394
...St. Francis 33,856
...St.Vincent 34,520
...Mt. Aloysius 223,10
...If you're gonna stay there, at another $10,000 at least.

Re: Local colleges

Posted: June 3rd, 2018, 7:11 pm
by El-Moldo
Of course, tuition at Mt. Aloysius is ONLY 23,100. Sorry.

Re: Local colleges

Posted: June 3rd, 2018, 8:22 pm
by knowitall
Pitt  19,080
PSU 18,436
IUP  10,500

Re: Local colleges

Posted: June 3rd, 2018, 9:04 pm
by El-Moldo
You can become a teacher at IUP for $10,500 per year. Or you can become a teacher at Duquesne for $36,000 per year. So for one year at Duquesne for can get almost 4 years at IUP. And when you consider that it's $28,000 for 4 years at BM, no wonder freshman college kids are avoiding Catholic colleges.

Re: Local colleges

Posted: June 3rd, 2018, 9:20 pm
by Colonel Mustard
The more surprising thing to me is the two kids going to Auburn.