NYU: Expensive AND Popular

Dropping $52,000/year for courses like a Guitar Hero class—what recession? NYU tells the Post it has "enrolled its largest student body in decades this year...More than 21,600 undergraduates enrolled at NYU this school year -- up nearly 400 from last year -- while more than 18,200 graduate students enrolled -- a one-year spike of nearly 800 enrollees." The school's enrollment has also increased 33% since 1990.

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By Jen Chung in News on October 3, 2009 9:50 AM

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McFister

NYU undergraduate isn't worth the money; most of its graduate schools are diploma mills. Buyer beware.

ladyjane

higher education is a choice, is it not? i graduated from nyu because i wanted to go there. guitar hero or not, i'm glad i got to spend my undergrad years in downtown manhattan and not in some mid-western campus school.

and again, even though no one should have to spend a quarter million for education, if you can and you want to...well...who's to say you shouldn't? preference...that's all i'm saying.

plus, individuals from all over, not just nyu students, sign 2 year leases on apartments they can't afford and suffer the consequences. this is new york city-people make sacrifices to live here that have nothing to do with any 'diluted, nyu inspired choices'

if you're going to hate nyu, hate on it for legit reasons (over congestion, for example) but not because it's expensive and offers classes slightly off the map. no one is making you go there...

Mr Mel

When they graduate they looks for work and wind up with something below their expectations. Then they look for a place to live and 2 or 3 of them get together and sign a 2 year lease on a place they can't afford. Before the lease is up they're making plans to go home. It's sad.

billybob

NYU is the TGI Fridays (in midtown) of New York colleges, rookieville

rasputinsghost

lol billybob went to baruch

bond0007

WTF is wrong with Baruch? Everyone I know that went there came out 100% debt free and landed awesome gigs. It is grad school where you should really concentrate on picking the top school you can get into. No one cares where you went to for undergrad anyways.

Mags

I will be the unpopular one and add that MANY students at NYU take serious courses and there are some incredible faculty members there. I am not saying the price tag is warranted, but it isn't all Guitar Hero and film theory either.

rcltrh

No-one should have to spend a quarter million for a bachelors degree in the USA unless its Harvard or Yale. No wonder we have so many undereducated people in this city. Ridiculous.

Jen S

And over-educated people lining up for entry-level jobs. The fact that a BA is necessary to work in an office is patronizing.

schizofriendly

So painfully true, Jen S.

lucidreamstate

Might have something to do with the quality of students that they are letting in/not rejecting... Lower your admission standards, accept more students, cram them into larger classrooms... PROFIT!

NannyState

Ding Ding! Out of fear that the economic crisis would crimp this year's crop, NYU relaxes standards to admit anyone who can pay. See ya at Sundance, Skippy!

nivek

What the fuck, Guitar Hero class?

Steven

All the high school boys and girls across the country, probably more so if they come from a small town or city want to move to New York City. What better way then go to school here and basically live for "free" (on loans and your parents money).

IMO, NYU is like apple. It's the prestige name. Obviously if you a like sports school you don't come to NYC, but otherwise NYU is the choice.

airtech1

If you're talking prestige, Columbia is Mac; NYU is PC.

And the really smart ones go to Cooper for free.

billybob

NYU is a total ripoff, at $1100 per credit, if you do the math over the course of 1 semester, each course costs you $1 for every single minute.