A lot of people here are saying it’s cheaper to run in person…
For purely theoretical degrees, that’s not true: having to maintain a campus is way more expensive than just doing things remotely, but for more vocational degrees it definitely is: imagine having to send a fume hood or injection moulder or oscilloscope out to every student as well as chase up getting it returned, along with shipping any hazardous materials like batteries, acid, biological samples etc. out, and verifying that people are actually handling those correctly?..
For science, medical and engineering degrees, online tuition is just going to produce people vastly underprepared for work in anything that requires the skills & knowledge the degree is meant to provide you, and as they’re the most expensive programs to run you can subsidise them with the other degrees, but only if they’re treated as comparable, ie being on the same campus.
A lot of people here are saying it’s cheaper to run in person…
For purely theoretical degrees, that’s not true: having to maintain a campus is way more expensive than just doing things remotely, but for more vocational degrees it definitely is: imagine having to send a fume hood or injection moulder or oscilloscope out to every student as well as chase up getting it returned, along with shipping any hazardous materials like batteries, acid, biological samples etc. out, and verifying that people are actually handling those correctly?..
For science, medical and engineering degrees, online tuition is just going to produce people vastly underprepared for work in anything that requires the skills & knowledge the degree is meant to provide you, and as they’re the most expensive programs to run you can subsidise them with the other degrees, but only if they’re treated as comparable, ie being on the same campus.