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Re: Maine Hockey 2013-2014 Part 1: Red Dawn
Let's say that there are 95 students who are interested in majoring in Astronomy. In order for it to make economic sense for there to be an Astronomy major, and employ faculty, staff, keep the labs and observatory open, etc., there have to be 100 students in the program to keep it bare minimum operational. If the system is going to get smaller, because they can't hit that monetary break even point, they should just cancel the Astronomy program? Now 95 students are out of luck, and the State of Maine's public flagship isn't graduating any Astronomers. If this program can identify 7 or 8 Indian students who want to major in Astronomy, now we are over that break even point. The first year may not hit it because of the fees paid to the referral service, but when that first year or two kicker expires, they'll be back in the black.
As far as opening its own office over there, I imagine it is a huuuuuuge pain in the *** to get that permission from the Chinese government, and the Indian government is notoriously protectionary of domestic industry. Might just be more of a headache than writing some dude a check. It's the third world. Business is messy there, but that's why there are middle class families there willing to send their kids abroad for college and pay full freight.
Let's say that there are 95 students who are interested in majoring in Astronomy. In order for it to make economic sense for there to be an Astronomy major, and employ faculty, staff, keep the labs and observatory open, etc., there have to be 100 students in the program to keep it bare minimum operational. If the system is going to get smaller, because they can't hit that monetary break even point, they should just cancel the Astronomy program? Now 95 students are out of luck, and the State of Maine's public flagship isn't graduating any Astronomers. If this program can identify 7 or 8 Indian students who want to major in Astronomy, now we are over that break even point. The first year may not hit it because of the fees paid to the referral service, but when that first year or two kicker expires, they'll be back in the black.
As far as opening its own office over there, I imagine it is a huuuuuuge pain in the *** to get that permission from the Chinese government, and the Indian government is notoriously protectionary of domestic industry. Might just be more of a headache than writing some dude a check. It's the third world. Business is messy there, but that's why there are middle class families there willing to send their kids abroad for college and pay full freight.
