A Usenet persona calling itself BCITORGB wrote:

Scott argues:
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They're just like any other business. How ever much of a pain med
students
are, the university has a lot invested in the med school program, as
you
yourself admit, and the only way to pay for all that infrastructure is
to
have students in the programs.
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But surely you don't want to *increase* your investment in this
expensive program. Please! Explain to me why it is in a university's
best interests to increase the number of seats in med school (from a
purely free market perspective -- which is what you insist they're
responding to)?

The number of seats reflects the demand for doctors. Free market economics,
pure and simple.


If the increased admissions come because of a government (state
education department) directive -- by way of the regents -- then, of
course it will happen. But please explain the economics of increasing
med school admissions to me.

More students, more tuition, more alumni donations.

How is that good for the university when
opening more seats in the executive MBA program will yield so much more
in terms of income.?

Not everybody wants to be an MBA.
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