Quote Originally Posted by THEsocalledfan View Post
That is a national wide trend and has to do with with the combination of lower higher ed enrollment in general, over expansions of class sizes and new colleges in the 2000s, and the working conditions at places like CVS, Walgreens, Walmart. (Check out the pharmacy class sizes currently at SDSU, MN, and Iowa right now....) Class sizes have corrected and some colleges (who should have never gotten into it) have closed. (MN currently has a big enrollment problem at the Duluth campus.) With that said, that is a flagship program at NDSU, and its a needed health career that is not going away. The market will correct, and hopefully more automation in the ambulatory side will help with pressures. On the hospital side, we can't find enough qualified clinically adept help. There are not many other majors NDSU offers that are as recession proof, and offer starting salaries higher than pharmacy. Yep, go ahead an cut it.....
I understand all that, and no one's talking about eliminating the majors. They are, however, down nearly 400 students since 2018, which translates to well over $4 million in tuition revenue (even more with the PP differential tuition). And that was reflected in the budget cut that the college of HP took this fall. The new budget model will be completely based on student credit hours generated, so it will be imperative for them to get those numbers back up if they want to sustain their faculty numbers at the level they're currently at.