As reported in The New York Times, state colleges and universities are waning in their ability to provide their student body with programs in science, health care and engineering due to state budgetary cuts,put in place in times of recession, but never eliminated or reduced in times of growth. Although popular and in demand, the programs are expensive to run,same as art programs, so now the trend is going strong to have private, elite institutions and those who can have the advantage over Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota, Colorado, Michigan, Florida and Texas state institutions which have had to close down their engineering and computer science programs.