The costs and benefits of running a private U.

[_zeezrom]

Cost analysis:

Student body population at BYU: 34,000
Annual tuition at BYU: $4,500

Average annual tuition for private universities: $28,500

Approximate annual subsidy paid by the LDS Church and donors: $24,000 per student = $816 Million

Cost to get these 34,000 students to graduate = $3.26 billion

Benefit analysis

80% of BYU graduates pay tithing for the rest of their lives (a guess)

Average salary at mid-career of BYU grad: $86,800

30 years of tithing = 8,680 * 30 = $260,400
Multiplied by 80% of grads: 260,400 * 27,200 = $7 Billion

Conclusion

Worth it!

[_Buffalo]

It's kind of sad how many of the church's decisions can be better understood by simply following the money.

Thanks for this analysis, Zeez!

[_bcspace]

Malachi 3:8-10

[_Morley]

Malachi 3:8-10

The Merchant Of Venice Act 4, scene 1, 304–307.

[_Hoops]

Macbeth Act I, Scene ii, 22-23

[_zeezrom]

Dudes, can you please paste the quotes so we don't have to go searching through Shakespeare books?

I can't seem to find the same exact lines in my version. Thanks for helping a rookie out.

[_zeezrom]

Malachi 3:8-10

I never used to wonder what Ute fan tithe payers thought about the church paying nearly a billion dollars a year on BYU. Wow.

[_Hoops]

Dudes, can you please paste the quotes so we don't have to go searching through Shakespeare books?

I can't seem to find the same exact lines in my version. Thanks for helping a rookie out.

As my applause to Morley:

"Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,
And fix'd his head upon our battlements"

[_Morley]

Dudes, can you please paste the quotes so we don't have to go searching through Shakespeare books?

I can't seem to find the same exact lines in my version. Thanks for helping a rookie out.

The Merchant Of Venice Act 4, scene 1, 304–307:

SHYLOCK
Most learned judge! A sentence! Come, prepare!

PORTIA
Tarry a little; there is something else.
This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood;
The words expressly are "a pound of flesh":


edit: Ha! You're right to ask, Zee. I was indulging a juvenile reaction to BC's dropping of chapter and verse with no accompanying quotation.

[_Fence Sitter]

I didn't major in finance or even math at BYU but I did stay at a Holiday Inn . . . sometime back. What is the value of 3.26 billion invested over 30 years? I would say that is not a very good return on the investment.