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Moody\u2019s gives colleges a negative grade<\/a><\/strong> — from the NYT by Andrew Martin<\/p>\n

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The credit reporting agency Moody\u2019s said on Wednesday that it had revised its financial outlook for colleges and universities, giving a negative grade to the entire field.<\/p>\n

For the last two years, Moody\u2019s Investors Service<\/a> gave the nation\u2019s most elite public and private colleges a stable forecast while assigning a negative outlook to the rest of higher education. (Moody\u2019s assigned a negative outlook for the sector in 2009, but it upgraded the most elite ones to stable in 2011-2012.)<\/p>\n

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Nowhere to turn<\/strong><\/a> — from insighehighered.com by Kevin Kiley<\/p>\n

Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n

If colleges and universities thought they could ride out the current revenue challenges by becoming more like some other institution, Moody’s Investors Service has a bit of bad news for them: The grass isn’t greener on anybody else’s quad. Not even Harvard University’s.<\/p>\n

In a report released Wednesday, the ratings agency outlines how every traditional revenue stream for colleges and universities is facing some sort of pressure, a finding Moody’s uses as grounds for giving the whole sector a negative outlook. The agency has been pessimistic about much of the sector since its annual outlook in 2009 after the economic downturn began, but Wednesday’s report contains a downward shift in how analysts view even market leaders, the elite institutions with high demand and brand recognition.<\/p>\n

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Originally saw thes graphic below on the\u00a0Education Stormfront blog <\/a><\/strong>(thanks Andrew) <\/a>— also see <\/em>Will Hanlon Pop the Higher Ed Bubble?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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From DSC:<\/em><\/span>
\nAs you know if you are a regular reader of this blog, I believe the higher ed bubble has already popped — but I have it that it will pop at different times for different institutions.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Addendum on 1\/22\/13:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n