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Title: The 100 Most Financially Fit Colleges
Post by: profudge on August 17, 2013, 11:01:22 AM
Here is what Forbes on-line (http://www.forbes.com/sites/schifrin/2013/07/24/behind-forbes-financial-grades/) says about Cornell, 30th out of 100 listed:  

Quote from: The 100 Most Financially Fit CollegesCornell University
Ithaca, N.Y.
Financial GPA: 4.5
Grade: A+
No trace of red ink at Big Red, though its endowment per FTE is dwarfed by some of its elite competitors.

Interesting reading.
Title: Re: The 100 Most Financially Fit Colleges
Post by: nyc94 on August 17, 2013, 12:46:26 PM
I thought I just read we had a ton of debt.
Title: Re: The 100 Most Financially Fit Colleges
Post by: Trotsky on August 17, 2013, 07:28:54 PM
Quote from: nyc94I thought I just read we had a ton of debt.
There's good debt and bad debt.  I guess Forbes thinks ours is good debt.
Title: Re: The 100 Most Financially Fit Colleges
Post by: Jeff Hopkins '82 on August 20, 2013, 07:27:31 AM
Quote from: Trotsky
Quote from: nyc94I thought I just read we had a ton of debt.
There's good debt and bad debt.  I guess Forbes thinks ours is good debt.

probably a lot of debt associated wit the NYC Tech Campus.