(04-11-2023 11:33 AM)Todor Wrote:  Just an observation from watching lots of colleges close over the years I thought I’d share. If a Catholic college is closing, about 75% of the time (or more) it was a former women’s college. The former men’s colleges are almost always stronger.

Even if they became coed 50 years ago and are right near a former all mens catholic college that also became coed at the same time, the case is nearly always the same. If you look at people leaving their money to their alma maters upon death (or even donations later in life), we are still in an era when lots of those alums were at the single sex schools. And the women never made the money men did for myriad reasons.

Incidentally, the same applies to non catholic single sex colleges, but there were usually much fewer of them. And most single sex colleges that remained single sex after the late 60’s are not catholic.

Besides Stritch, Presentation, Medaille (merging), Holy Names are all examples from just the past year or so, but the list is very extensive.