Public four-year colleges are big and growing enterprises, even though their best-known investors — state taxpayers — are contributing less as state revenue shrinks. Fiscal growth on campus is due in part to more students paying higher tuition and talented faculty members snaring more research dol
lars. These data give a sense of the schools’ comparative wealth.
Bow down to Washington
The University of Washington is a bigger operation than the state’s other four-year universities combined, primarily because it’s the only one with a medical center.
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Sources of revenue
Several streams of money are used to pay the bills. Besides tuition and fees and state appropriations, sources include research grants and contracts, private gifts, and income from services such as student housing and dining. At UW, research dollars and money from patient services at UW Medical Center account for 57 percent of revenue.
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