Debates: The cost of higher education. Universités : quelles sont les plus chères dans le monde. On a beaucoup parlé de frais de scolarité dans les universités françaises ces dernières semaines suite aux propositions du think tank proche du PS Terra Nova de les multiplier par trois (lire mon billet du 30 août). En publiant sur son site Top Universities les frais des 300 meilleures universités du monde, l’organisme QS permet de voir de près quelles sont celles qui coûtent le plus cher aux étudiants. Reste maintenant à établir celles qui proposent le meilleurs rapport qualité/prix… La griffre US se vend très chère Et là pas de surprise, l’excellence à l’américaine coûte très cher. Comptez de l’ordre de 40 000$ (29 000 euros) par an pour aller suivre un master à Harvard ou au MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). Public, Berkeley est nettement moins cher avec 26 000 dollars en master (18 500 euros).
Situé comme Harvard à Cambridge près de Boston, le Massachusetts Institute of Technology fait partie des universités américaines les plus renommées. Et dans le reste du monde ? Search. Economics Essays: Why University Education should be Free. With the expansion in university numbers, there has been a divisive debate about how much students (and their families) should actually pay.
There are several arguments to suggest the government should provide university education free at the point of use, and make it available to everyone. 1. Greater Equality. Free education enables everyone to have the opportunity of studying. It also avoids the complexity of means testing systems 2. University Education is a Merit Good.
People often underestimate the benefits of studying at university. 3. University education gives benefits to the rest of society. 4. In the US, students often leave university with very significant debts. See also: Why Students should pay to goto University. Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare. Top universities to offer online courses -- for free. By Sevil Omer, NBC News Two professors from California want to teach the world for free. Now, five of the nation’s top universities have backed the pair’s project, dubbed Coursera, and will next year offer dozens of online courses to students worldwide and at no cost.
Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, creators behind the online learning platform, announced on Wednesday their partnership with Stanford, Princeton, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan. "Our mission is to teach the world and make higher education available for everyone," Ng said in a statement. In the same announcement, Koller added: "By partnering with the world's leading universities, we're making college-level classes more accessible to anyone who wants to learn. " The founders say professors will teach under their university's name and will adapt popular courses for the Web, embedding assignments and exams into video lectures through its website, coursera.org.