LETTER: Defending business school differential

Defending differential

To the editor:

    There have been a number of articles in The Statesman about differential tuition at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business. It appears that the writers have already made up their minds that it is a bad thing. In light of this, I think it would be good to hear about it from a business student’s perspective.

    It was mentioned several times that differential tuition might turn some students away from the Huntsman School of Business. All of these statements were made without any statistical backing. Differential tuition has been in place for three years now, and enrollment at the Huntsman School of Business has actually increased. Enrollment among undergraduates has increased by 4.4 percent since 2008, and enrollment among graduates has increased by a whopping 53.4 percent.

    The Huntsman School of Business is not after “hot-shot egomaniac” professors. Rather, the school is merely responding to the increase in demand among students who are seeking an increasingly valuable degree from a college that is committed to providing its students with the best possible resources.

Connor Child