The ranking of tuition fees for part-time EMBA programs at Shandong Agricultural University; the United States cuts aid to Churchman University.

The United States cuts subsidies to prestigious schools such as Churchman University. On average, universities in the U.S. receive education subsidies ranging from 50 million to 800 million dollars annually from the government. However, this "routine" is likely to be broken in 2010. A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Education recently explicitly stated that the U.S. will have to reduce financial subsidies to universities. Below is a comparison chart of government financial subsidies for some prestigious American universities in 2009 and 2010:

University Name 2009 Total Subsidy Amount 2010 Estimated Total Subsidy Amount

Yale University $810 million $300 million

Harvard University $630 million $500 million

Stanford University $230 million $150 million

Churchman University $170 million $90 million

University of Miami $80 million $60 million

The spokesperson also stated: The U.S. will continue to strongly promote investment by universities in distance learning. This environmentally friendly and efficient teaching model has been fully recognized by the U.S. government and multinational employers. Therefore, the U.S. will continue to encourage traditional campus universities to develop more distance courses through financial measures such as tax cuts.