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The internet has already driven the cost of education to zero, what schools are really selling are degrees. Anyways, Yale only spends $170 million on tuition as
by leakybit 11y ago
The internet has already driven the cost of education to zero, what schools are really selling are degrees. Anyways, Yale only spends $170 million on tuition assistance, but in reality ; Yale covers full tuition and housing costs for students who's family income is less than $200,000.
- wallacoloo 11y ago> The internet has already driven the cost of education to zero [...] For things like CS, sure - mostly. Excepting for slightly niche areas like embedded programming, you can achieve similar experience for $0. But for most other [engineering] degrees, this isn't true. You can't tape out a custom integrated circuit (IC) for free, but this is something some EE undergrads get to do at brand-name universities. Even the licensing cost of the software used to design those ICs can reach six figures. I imagine there are similar things with chemistry, material science students and especially medical students. But yeah, even in those other engineering fields, the internet has reduced the cost of education.
- bzbarsky 11y agoPray tell me how one can use the internet to get a zero-cost education to prepare one for, say, a career in experimental physics. It turns out that you need some actual hand-on experience with some non-virtual equipment to do a lot of things in the real world...