Free education: Learning new lessons. TOP-QUALITY teaching, stringent admissions criteria and impressive qualifications allow the world’s best universities to charge mega-fees: over $50,000 for a year of undergraduate study at Harvard.
Less exalted providers have boomed too, with a similar model that sells seminars, lectures, exams and a “salad days” social life in a single bundle. Now online provision is transforming higher education, giving the best universities a chance to widen their catch, opening new opportunities for the agile, and threatening doom for the laggard and mediocre. Higher education: Not what it used to be. ON THE face of it, American higher education is still in rude health.
In worldwide rankings more than half of the top 100 universities, and eight of the top ten, are American. The scientific output of American institutions is unparalleled. They produce most of the world’s Nobel laureates and scientific papers. Abby Miller: Is More (Advanced) Education Always Better? When did the Master's degree become so commonplace, and so meaningless?
It seems that the master's degree has replaced the bachelor's as the minimum requirement for a career pathway job. On the one hand, politicians and education advocates urge all Americans to get a bachelor's degree; that's their ticket to the American dream.