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It's not even about revenue. Harvard doesn't set tuition to maximize revenue -- it's only a drop in the financial bucket. As for offering content online, MIT
by aneesh 19y ago
It's not even about revenue. Harvard doesn't set tuition to maximize revenue -- it's only a drop in the financial bucket.
As for offering content online, MIT has been pretty progressive in this regard, and they offer ocw.mit.edu. But having advertising would undermine the credibility of a university. I think it's better just to take the (small) hit, and make it ad-free.
- tim2 19y agoIt's not about profit? For virtually all schools, it is. I think these discussions are highly distorted by just focusing on the top couple schools that are the exception to the norm and affect very few people anyway.