Calculating cost-return for investments in student success

Calculating cost-return for investments in student success

This project calculated the cost return on first year programs to enhance student success. It claims all the tuition/fee revenue for the increase in retained students without accounting for the costs of instructing those students down the line, or the fact that the institution may have already calculated how to saturate its resources with the amount of melt it was experiencing before the intervention. So the real savings would be in the cost of recruiting enough students to fill the beds and classes.

Suggested Citation

Calculating cost-return for investments in student success (Rep.). (2009, December). Retrieved from http://www.deltacostproject.org/sites/default/files/products/ISS_cost_return_report.pdf