Breaking Down the Spending at One of America s Priciest Public Colleges – WSJ

AUBURN, Ala. In recent decades, Auburn University added hundreds of millions of dollars in spending to its budget. The additional money didn t go to the English department, nor to the sociology department. Some science departments only got a trickle more. 

Instead, much of the money went toward administrative salaries, buildings and, no surprise, sports. 

Auburn piled millions more each year into paying down the debt it borrowed for campus upgrades, including an $84 million basketball arena. It hired hundreds of administrators and professional staff. Spending on the president s office and other administrative departments often increased far faster than that on many academic subjects. 

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