The Future of American Colleges?

[ucbalumnus]

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@PurpleTitan

For example, if a university takes in 4 times as many students as now with the first 2 years spent learning through cheap (to deliver as well as tuition cost) MOOCs, and allow only the best quarter to continue on to be upperclassmen on the main campus (with the rest transfering to state schools that there are articulation agreements with), the university would be just as exclusive and tuition costs would be nearly halved. Actually, in this case, the university would probably work it out where half the campus begins on the main campus and half start with MOOCs (so 2/3rds the upperclassmen).

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<p>The main question with this model is that many otherwise college-ready students do not have the self-motivation to keep up with self-paced courses, which are relatively uncommon even at more selective universities.</p>