#### DominiConnor

At the risk of saying "I told you so", some time ago I did point out that as cash cows MFE programs would come under pressure to increase their size to help the general budget of their universities.

Doubling student numbers without compromising quality is not that hard to do, many resources like lecture rooms and lecturers are rarely anywhere near their capacity. Some extra staff and some library resource and you are mostly there.

However...
The point of the exercise is to make more money and the temptation and pressure will be to be "more efficient", ie keep the level of resources at much the same level.

The question is whether anyone reading this will care ?
Again something I've seen is how people often choose their MFE on the branding so quality of teaching etc don't matter so much.
Would you rather a badly taught MFE from MIT or a better taught one from Fordham ?

Also it will do unintuitive things to their applicant/acceptance ratio.
At first glance one might think that is must halve it, and since a depression % of MFE applicants see that as a mark of quality, may hurt the program.

But...
One if the many reasons the ratio is a bogus indicator is that people self-select; they think to themselves that they can't get into MIT because they're not in the top X%. But if X doubles, then they may well think they can do it and so will lots of others, it is not a linear relationship, doubling the number of places may more than double the number of applicants, possibly, all I really know is that it's non-linear, no one will know the reality yet.

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