Private College Financial Compass New Feature: User filter tables (ex. Employees per 100 students)

Name: Private College Financial Compass New Feature: User filter tables (ex. Employees per 100 students)
Uploaded: 2025-03-12T01:39:27+00:00
Duration: 2 min 32 s
Channel: Gary Stocker
Description: In this product demonstration, the presenter walks through a newly added peer‑setting and table‑filtering capability within the Private College Financial…

12 Mar 2025 · 3 min

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In this product demonstration, the presenter walks through a newly added peer‑setting and table‑filtering capability within the Private College Financial Compass tool. The workflow begins by filtering Bachelor‑of‑Arts (BA) schools to those with fewer than 120 students in the 2023 cohort. The presenter selects a handful of comparable institutions—Magdalen College (NH), Sterling College (VT), and Thomas More College—as peer benchmarks. Using the “employees per 100 students” metric, the demo highlights normal staffing ratios for the peers (around 60–120 staff per 100 students) and contrasts them with Antioch’s dramatically higher ratio (227 staff per 100 students). The presenter flags this as a likely unsustainable staffing problem, noting that even elite schools like Harvard maintain far lower ratios. The segment showcases how the new feature enables rapid peer identification, metric comparison, and problem diagnosis within the platform.

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Showing you a new feature. So let's take a look at some schools that are their size. So BA school that have fewer than, so they have 100 students, right? We'll look at schools that have fewer than 120 students. Okay. Well, it looks like I've got 106. So in 2023. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So all anyway, it doesn't matter. Let me, I'm just, what I'm going to do is use this table to try to find some schools that might be decent peers. so less than 120 or so. All right. BA. And let's do 2023. So I just want to like look at, so here's a, here's one good example. Magdalen College in New Hampshire, Sterling College, Thomas More College. These might be decent comparison schools. Let's start with Magdalen. Um, and I'm going to put them in so we can see what their staffing looks like. So Magdalene and setting peers is a relatively new feature as well, right, Matt? Yeah, what'd you say? Adding peers is a new feature also. Oh yes, yes, sorry. Um, I'm gonna take out some stuff here just to show you the gap here. So you see Magdalene, they're a tiny school just like, uh, Antioch, but they have a normal staffing, right? And let me put, uh, Antioch back in. You can see the gap here. They're at 123 they were at 60, which is normal. I, I wonder if Magdalene is having some problems now that the same issues popping up that, you know, antioxidant we've been struggling with for years. So here's the thing. This shows you that you can do this, right? And I can give you more examples. We can put in Sterling as well. I double-checked this before the show. Whoops. Sterling College in Vermont. Again, they're higher, higher end on staffing, but again, uh, they're at 120 staff per 100 students versus 227 per 100 students. Okay, so right away this tells me that there's probably a very, very serious staffing problem at Antioch that is just not— never— that's never going to be sustainable to have 2.5 times a number of staff than you have students unless you have a massive endowment, right? Which is probably what Harvard looks like. Let's just double-check that. Harvard. Even Harvard is more normal. So, uh, really shocking there. But this is what I love about this. So we've diagnosed one big problem.