Penn State Case Study

In my acceptance letter, a sentence drew my attention: the Pennsylvania State University has a tradition of excellence. The Pennsylvania State University is famous for its excellent education quality. However, a class with too much students can harm its education quality. In-soo Shin and Jae Young Chung utilizd meta analysis to conduct a research that suggests that the class size can affect the achievements of the students. According to the Penn state course schedule, the class size of basic economic classes, such as econ 102, econ 104, econ 302, econ 304,econ 106 and econ 306, ranges from about 200 to more than 300; an econ 302 class even has 690 students in the class. When the class becomes too crowded, students can’t get involved in the

However, we can furtherly cut down the money we need; for example, we can use statistic data to find out the class that few students take or many of them will drop or withdraw or fail. Then we can rearrange the resource from those classes to classes that lack resource. According to budget office of Penn State, the salary spending on teaching faculty in University Park is $596,113,201. Based on the data we gain from University of Georgia, we estimate that the cost of this plan is $10 million, twice as high as the cost that happen in University of Georgia. After calculation, we can gain we just need 1.7% more of our salary budget to implement this idea. The budget office of our university shows that the mean salary of the instructors in Penn State University is $63,366, while the tuition for Pennsylvania resident undergraduate students is $16572 to $17916, for non-Pennsylvania resident undergraduate students is $30404 to $31950. According to Penn State admission office, the percentage of Pennsylvania resident students is 62%, so the mean tuition for our university is $21,828 to $23,249. If we reduce the student to faculty ratio to 10:1, with one more instructor, we can recruit 10 more students, and the revenue is $154,914 to $169,124. What’s more, with lower student to faculty ratio, we can have smaller class and have better education, which can attract more students to apply our