Written by: Spencer Jakab Published by: Wall Street Journal MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: As New York University marketing professor Scott Galloway points out, higher education is perhaps the only industry that hasn’t faced pressure to cut costs. The actual instruction received is affordable enough that gross margins are great, but overhead has become perilously high. To … [Read more...]
Colleges Woo Students With Bargain Tuition Rates
Written by: Emma Whitford Published by: Inside Higher Ed MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: This spring many colleges announced tuition deals for students in response to the pandemic, and they’re seeing it pay off with growing application numbers. Click Here to Read More Via Original Source … [Read more...]
Are Colleges Ready for a Different Kind of Teaching This Fall?
Written by: Beth McMurtrie Published by: The Chronicle of Higher Education MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Higher education has been granted good will these past couple of months by students and their families. But as with an unhappy marriage, everyone involved agrees that the patched-together system of awkward Zoom classes, glitchy technology, and uncertain expectations, … [Read more...]
Penn State Smeal adds master’s incentive for incoming Executive MBA class
Written by: Penn State Smeal College of Business Published by: Penn State Smeal College of Business Week MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Qualified applicants may complete one selected additional master’s program or an online graduate certificate for no additional tuition. Click Here to Read More Via Original Source … [Read more...]
MBA students demand tuition fee refunds over campus closures
Written by: Jonathan Moules Published by: Financial Times MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: MBA students at some of the world’s leading business schools are demanding a refund on their tuition fees as compensation for campus closures and the switch to what they view as inferior online learning. A petition circulating among students at The Wharton School, where fees alone for a … [Read more...]
Should Colleges Discount Tuition Because Of The Shift To Internet Classes?
Written by: John Byrne Published by: Forbes MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: There is little surprise that the students at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts are upset. As on-campus classes for the $58,552-a-year degree program have moved onto the Internet, a good many of them are asking why they should have to pay full tuition when they’re not getting what they … [Read more...]