> Really I will never understand doing it the other way with capricious professors, unending busy work, huge loans, living in a crappy apartment next to campus.

> Really I will never understand doing it the other way with capricious professors, unending busy work, huge loans, living in a crappy apartment next to campus. The list goes on and on. If more schools modeled themselves after WGU the brick and mortar college would be on life support in a generation. You are aware of the existence of online education, aren't you? Your description of college as solely "brick and mortar" is at least a couple decades behind the times. That doesn't even take into account that correspondence degrees have existed at least since the 1960s. WGU offers a different product. Community colleges offer a different product. Hacker schools offer a different product. The list goes on. I don't think it's entirely ignorance that explains why people pay for college at places like NYU. For some, college and passing exams are different things, whether or not that is consistent with your own preferences. I can say you're very much not representative since you already had a good job.