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That article is kind of misleading. Between Brown, RISD, Providence College, and Johnson and Wales, there are 25,000 students. There aren't 25,000 students at Brown, by golly.
This doesn't bother me at all. I think the schools should be paying the city some sort of premium. I don't know how much J&W is, but the cost of attendance at the other three schools is well over $40K; just about half of all students receive financial assistance. That means you have just about 15,000 students paying full freight; another 10,000 probably pay pretty close to that. An extra $300 a year when students use the water, free city buses, parks, police department (there were some things the PPD could do that the individual college police couldn't), and the roads is merely a drop in the bucket. Plus, since the colleges are tax-exempt anyway (and in the case of Brown and RISD, own land in the most expensive parts of Providence).
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