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Hello! I don't think it would be beneficial to worry about moving just a few pages. Instead, do what you can to link back over to relevant pages on the main site from those blog pages, and try to drive users to the main site if appropriate. Google will also look at traffic patterns in addition to links and pass more value from the blog pages to your main site if they see user behavior as such.

I'm going to agree with Dana and say "it depends".  I wanted to add as well that a 301 redirect still passes somewhere between 95-99% of the link equity, so if this were my site I wouldn't bother unless there was a huge number of links that came this way.  The exception would be if the site is doing a redirect to a page that is blocked by robots.txt and then redirecting that page to yours.  If that happens then you don't get any of the link equity and yes, I'd want it changed.  But then again, if someone is doing that, it would be on purpose and they probably wouldn't want to change it.

Hi RCF, Here is what I see: Searching for 'doctor of business administration' with my location set to Redmond Oregon, http://www.georgefox.edu/business/dba/ is coming up #8 organically. Doing this same search, but with my location set to Newberg, Oregon, I see http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/sfs/grad/tuition/business/dba/ coming up #2 organically. It looks like my exact rankings may not be identical to yours, but at least my searches appear to confirm that the 2 different pages are surfacing with the 2 different locations being set. Unfortunately, I agree with Moosa that it's very hard to hit on a precise reason for why Google would be favoring your tuition page over your home page when a user's location is set to the town the in which the institution is located. I do have a suggestion, though. Why not try putting Newberg, OR in the title tag of the page you'd like to be ranking highest for Newberg-located searchers, mention it in the H1 tag, and mention it more than once in the copy. I'd also recommend that you put the complete NAP (name, address, phone) in the body copy of the page, though I see it's already in the footer. Perhaps by increasing the optimization for Newberg on this page, you might strengthen the pages chances of ranking the way you want it to? Just a suggestions.

This may not be a good answer, but at a time there was a chrome add-on that you could analyze meta tags, but at the same time there was a sticky note, it would then allow you to email, or save file after you commented on it.  This may not be 100% what your looking for, but you may want to check it out if you can't find anything else.  I wish I knew what it was called, but this was about 9 months ago I seen it and I didn't have a use for it at the time, so I got rid of it. Have a great night. MB