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July 23, 2012
One-Third of Colleges Are on Financially 'Unsustainable' Path, Bain Study Finds
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The report offers an online interactive feature that allows users to see how colleges fare on a nine-part matrix that's based on two financial ratios.
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Chronicle illustration by Ron Coddington

The report offers an online interactive feature that allows users to see how colleges fare on a nine-part matrix that's based on two financial ratios.

By Goldie Blumenstyk

An analysis of nearly 1,700 public and private nonprofit colleges being unveiled this week by Bain & Company finds that one-third of the institutions have been on an "unsustainable financial path" in recent years, and an additional 28 percent are "at risk of slipping into an unsustainable condition."

At a surprising number of colleges, "operating expenses are getting higher" and "they're running out of cash to cover it," says Jeff Denneen, a Bain partner who heads the consulting firm's American higher-education practice.

Bain and Sterling Partners, a private-equity firm, collaborated on the project. They have published their findings on a publicly available interactive Web site that allows users to type in the name of a college and see where it falls on the analysts' nine-part matrix.

more at the URL.

Here's the interactive website:
http://www.thesustainableuniversity.com/

Don't bother typing in a school name because it doesn't work.
However, pick a school type from the pull down mention and big lists will pop up.

Probably 80 % when S&P is 700 or less.

Could Bain & Co. have a bigger logo on that webpage? Because the people who need a reality check at colleges right now are likely to put a lot of credence in anything that says "Bain & Co."....