Burggren talks future of UNT with SGA

[Skipper]

Ben Peyton / Intern The UNT Student Government Association met with Warren Burggren, UNT provost and vice president for academic affairs, and appointed one senator during its meeting Wednesday night. President V. Lane Rawlins was originally scheduled to speak to the SGA but was unable to attend. Burggren spoke instead and discussed the future of UNT. "We are in the middle of taking off," Burggren said. "In 2020, I bet this will be a fundamentally better university, and you will have had something to do with it." Burggren assured the SGA that the tuition students pay is well worth the [...]

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[GrayEagle]

I was thumbing through the state of Texas financials, especially as had to do with university funds, recently and compared a few of the revenue amounts. Texas State and Texas Tech, each with 5,000 or less students had about the same amount of revenue as North Texas. Actually, the revenue each generated was just over $48 million for last year while North Texas was slightly under that figure. That told me that the cost of attending North Texas is less per student and the quality is equal to those institutions at the least. I believe that UNT is a better value now and will be even moreso if the Four Bold Goals achieve their design.

I expect North Texas to take a tremendous leap in prestige within the next ten years.

Edited April 5, 2012 by GrayEagle

[GL2Greatness]

I was thumbing through the state of Texas financials, especially as had to do with university funds, recently and compared a few of the revenue amounts. Texas State and Texas Tech, each with 5,000 or less students had about the same amount of revenue as North Texas. Actually, the revenue each generated was just over $48 million for last year while North Texas was slightly under that figure. That told me that the cost of attending North Texas is less per student and the quality is equal to those institutions at the least. I believe that UNT is a better value now and will be even moreso if the Four Bold Goals achieve their design.

I expect North Texas to take a tremendous leap in prestige within the next ten years.

not sure what numbers you were looking at, but "revenue" comes to a university in a number of ways many of which are not tuition

University of North Texas $8,736

Texas State University-San Marcos $8,230

Texas Tech University $9,064

University of Houston $9,211

The University of Texas at Arlington $9,152

The University of Texas at El Paso $6,869

The University of Texas at Dallas $11,168

The University of Texas at San Antonio $8,790

this is the average tuition and fees for 2012 for the 8 emerging research universities so UNT is not much different than any but UTD and UTEP and is actually higher than TxState and only slightly lower than Texas Tech

[GL2Greatness]

also neither school is close to being 5,000 less students than UNT

University of North Texas 35,694

Texas State University-San Marcos 34,087

Texas Tech University 32,149

University of Houston 39,820

The University of Texas at Arlington 33,439

The University of Texas at El Paso 22,582

The University of Texas at Dallas 18,864

The University of Texas at San Antonio 30,968

those are the 2011 fall enrollment numbers

so TxState is 1607 less and Tech is 3545 less

and since tuition (mostly) and state funding is based on FTEs not total enrollment (15 hours for undergrads and 9 hours for grad students)

these are the FTE totals for the 8 emerging research universities

University of North Texas 27846.83

Texas State University-San Marcos 27497.06

Texas Tech University 28232.47

University of Houston 31902.5

The University of Texas at Arlington 22834.78

The University of Texas at El Paso 16374.28

The University of Texas at Dallas 14869.38

The University of Texas at San Antonio 24355.78

so TxState was only 349.77 FTEs behind UNT and Tech is actually 386.14 FTEs ahead of UNT

much different than "5000"

[forevereagle]

Please just stop.