If what you need is an infrastructure for distributing lectures and grading exams, a university is overkill. The real function of a university is community. Com

If what you need is an infrastructure for distributing lectures and grading exams, a university is overkill. The real function of a university is community. Communities that concentrate serious students and expect high performance from them are different in important and desirable ways from randomly sampled groups of 18-year-olds.