Stony Brook to Open a pharmacy school

[beast of the east]

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/...-to-open-pharmacy-school-next-year-1.10074058

This cannot be good news for St. John's, with already declining enrollment. With a much lower tuition, if St. John's loses 50 students per year to Stony Brook, the cost over 6 years would be $12.5 million. (Pharmacy school is 6 years)

I wonder if Bobby G. will think about that before deciding to pay Lavin $2 million per year.

 

[otis]

if St. John's loses 50 students per year to Stony Brook, the cost over 6 years would be $12.5 million. (Pharmacy school is 6 years)

Stony Brook having a pharmacy school will not prevent StJ's from filling its incoming class since there are many pharmacy school applicants that do not get admitted the to a pharmacy school program. Note that the Wegman's School of Pharmacy at St.John Fisher College and D'Youville College have opened in NY State within the past 12+/- years and there is still demand for additional slots. What Stony Brook may do however is erode the quality of the applicant pool electing to attend St.John's because of geography or price difference which Stony Brook may offer.

 

[beast of the east]

if St. John's loses 50 students per year to Stony Brook, the cost over 6 years would be $12.5 million. (Pharmacy school is 6 years)

Stony Brook having a pharmacy school will not prevent StJ's from filling its incoming class since there are many pharmacy school applicants that do not get admitted the to a pharmacy school program. Note that the Wegman's School of Pharmacy at St.John Fisher College and D'Youville College have opened in NY State within the past 12+/- years and there is still demand for additional slots. What Stony Brook may do however is erode the quality of the applicant pool electing to attend St.John's because of geography or price difference which Stony Brook may offer.

IMO the demand has been fueled by growth of chains and big box stores such as target, costco, Walmart adding pharmacies. That growth will slow, as there have historically been ebbs and flows in terms of health care jobs. When I went to SJU, they and LIU were the two largest pharmacy schools in the country, beginning freshman year with about 425 students. A lot of that had to do with a growth of chain stores, combined with Fordham and Columbia closing their pharmacy schools. As a state school w lower tuition, SBU can siphon off a lot of students and get as big as they want within time. There is nothing aobut this that is good news for SJU

 

[L J S A]

If these potential pharmacy students happen to be weird, boring, and antisocial kids, SBU is the place for them.

 

[beast of the east]

If these potential pharmacy students happen to be weird, boring, and antisocial kids, SBU is the place for them.

Well, with board, a pahrmacy degree costs $300K at SJU for 6 years. Already pharmacy school has a large number of asian and middle eastern students, which as you suggested but for different reasons will find Stony Brook much less expensive and more culturally similar.

 

[gregbodkin]

Stony Brook is a medical related facility. SJU is much more diversified. I don't think the sky is falling IMHO.

 

[austour]

Most of SB is not a medical facility, and none of it is ranked 347, just saying.