Private research and four year colleges have a significant cost advantage compared to public research and four year institutions. Private two year schools have higher cost per student enrolled compared to the public schools. The average cost per student graduated in private schools is significantly lower than the cost per graduate in public schools. It costs about one fourth as much to train students in private schools compared to public schools, and this cost advantage is true for all levels of post secondary education. Most of these private schools have a high success rate based on the percentage of students who complete the programs and are placed in a job for which they have been trained.
Private schools have a significant impact on the Colorado economy.
In addition, the consumption expenditures of students enrolled in private schools has a multiplier effect on state income. If we could educate the students in our public schools as efficiently as we do in our private schools the savings to Colorado families and taxpayers is estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Private post secondary schools have expanded more rapidly than public schools in meeting the demand for a highly trained work force. Private schools offer training in hundreds of occupations, many of which are not offered in the public schools. Op-ed archive .