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Housing says this ‘isn’t a list we want to be on’ Housing from Page 1 the 52 percent living on campus, Miller said they of course are not paying that $14,000 rate. Even the meal plan included in the room and board fee does not seem to be a meal plan that LMU offers, according to Miller. “They may have done an average of our four board plans,” he said. While it is unsure exactly where these figures come from, Miller said, “I’m not going to pretend it’s way cheaper than that number … but that number they took in isn’t the reality of all our students.” However, after surveying over 1,800 colleges and universities, according to the US News & World report, it seems that the $14,000 range is being depicted as LMU’s reality. Among the top 10 schools listed, three others are located in California and the top school, Fordham University, is a fellow Jesuit University. Coming in at $15,374 for the 201213 school year, Fordham is nearly $1,000 more per year than LMU. Parents and students at LMU may find themselves wondering how our figures got to be so high. After about a two percent increase in housing costs from last year
to this year, Miller says that a lot of what goes into that cost is “being in a larger city, being in Los Angeles as well as some of the amenities we provide.” The campus’ location is a huge factor in the cost of living, as Miller said, but he also emphasized that housing really looks into what students are getting for their money. “Are we offering enough for students? What should we be offering to make them think it’s worth this great value?” Miller said. With budget season approaching for the University, Miller said it is hard to tell if housing costs will continue to rise from here. Overall, the University will look at “the cost of what it takes to maintain [it] on a year-to-year basis,” according to Miller. If they do continue to rise, the increase in vacancies on campus might do the same. This last year Miller said LMU saw a drop in just a little under two percent of students living on campus. “We’ve been steady over a number of years with the occupancy rate of students on campus at 100 percent or over,” but the 2012-13 school year has brought that to an end, he said. While this is only one year,
and it’s uncertain whether this will in fact remain a trend, Miller said, “We hope it’s not, we know there’s so many benefits to students living on campus.” Perhaps cost is not the only reason students made the move from living on campus to off. Miller said that the larger classes, such as the current juniors and seniors, had more people, so therefore they had more people living on campus. But now, the current underclassmen classes are much smaller and “sizes have leveled out, so [the vacancies] might be misleading.” Junior communications major Lauren Schneider said that “living off campus for the first time this year has really opened up my eyes to all the responsibilities that coincide with living on your own.” Aside from the increase in responsibilities, such as having to drive to class now, junior psychology major Kelsey Ito said, “I love living off campus. I feel more independent because I have a lot more responsibilities. Also, my rent is much cheaper than living on campus.” While Miller feels this ranking is not representative of what the overall student body is paying for housing, he recognizes that “this is definitely not a list we want to be on.”
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