Tuition Discounting

Former Hofstra University Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Herman Berliner writes:  The average first year discount rate increased in 2014 from 46.4% to 48% and, though the increase is modest, the yearly increases in the discount rate continue unabated. The common wisdom has been that we will not cross the 50% threshold but the reality has too many examples already of institutions that have already ventured into and above the 50% level, both undergraduate and graduate.