dirt cheap living expenses, but expect a degree that competes with Ivy League, Stanford, Michigan, Cal, USC, etc.

Seriously? If you expect that kind of degree power, step up and pay $50,000+ annual tuition somewhere and have at it.

Those who are a little less elitist in their ambitions will do quite nicely at BYU even at double the enrollment.

I graduated from BYU in 1972. The student body was about 27,000 then. Other than in a terrible economy, grads found good jobs over the years.

I got an MBA in 1974 at Utah. Economy was still terrible, but I found a good job and worked my way up to C-Level at multi-billion corporations. That was good enough for me.

Tuition was about $500 a year back then at both schools.

Now, the Church has grown at least 5 times larger. I would think they could double the 1972 student body size and still find highly qualified applicants.

There areally a lot of people in this world that do not want to live in NYC or the Bay area - notwithstanding the money and prestige associated with it.

BYU can find 60,000 of those students easily.