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For anyone skimming over this post, $14,861/semester adds up to $118,888 over four years.
Would it really take four years to do a masters? I thought most masters degrees were one- or two-year programs.
I'm one of the students that was admitted to this first round of classes. I've been taking MOOC's since the first round of Stanford courses in 2011, so I was excited to see this program develop just as I was applying to other graduate schools. Admission for the first round was very limited to keep it manageable while they address any issues that come up early in the new program (and there have been a few, though noth…
Why would anyone pay for a degree, let alone online degree, is still a mystery for me. You don't need a degree if you are really interested in computer science.
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Also the debt cannot be gotten rid of by declaring yourself bankrupt. It is a 'federal' debt. Think the UK has sort of got this right. Your tuition fees are a debt (at very low interest rates) that you never have to pay off unless you start earning significant amounts of money. It's repaid as a percentage of your salary above a certain income level.
Hmm, "right" is a pretty contentious point here still given the still recent betrayal of the Lib Dems. And 20 years ago it used to be completely free and you'd even be given money to go in the form of grants. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universities_in_the_United_King...
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That's good to know, but it might still not be accepted. While an Ivy-league education is sure to earn recognition, many second- or third-tier American institutions might fall short.
I won't call Georgia Tech second tier.
It's a not particularly massive online degree program using similar mechanisms to those used in MOOCs for classes—but it's not the first such program by any stretch of the imagination. Such programs are actually older than free MOOCs, and a number of instutions have had them for years; Kaplan has several, including a JD program. This seems to be the first to try to leverage the attention to MOOCs in te marketing, and…
I have to admit I don't see the difference between what Udacity are doing in this particular course and what Open University has been doing for years.
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Not sure a political party can be relied on to do the right thing. It's the nature of politics. 20 years ago I could buy a house for a decent price. I started Uni in 1990 and that was the first year student loans were introduced. So you'd have to have graduated in 1989 (25 years ago) to not have been impacted by student loans. What has changed is that the cost of going to University has now been transferred correctly…
I definitely don't agree with "Correctly"? It's a social investment in the future of the country, there's nothing objectively correct that at some arbitrary point in your education you suddenly need to pay. I wonder when you want to start having school children accrue their loans for primary/secondary school? Why is part of your education free and part of it not? And perhaps the most important part that you arguably…
The debt is non-repayable until you have pretty much become financially successful and is written off after 25 years. I really don't see this as a major issue. There is nothing financially stopping you going to University.
I'd actually argue that the government debt should also cover residential accommodation and minimum living costs.