I respectfully disagree. Lets take a simple case I know of personally -- a family with children. A remote graduate program with evening classes works for a lot

I respectfully disagree. Lets take a simple case I know of personally -- a family with children. A remote graduate program with evening classes works for a lot of people. A program where you need to commute into the city, commute back late at night after group meetings, or change cities all-together is just not practical for all but the wealthiest individuals (those who can afford 18hr nannies). Those who aren't wealthy enough to do that aren't stupid or lazy, they are just lacking wealth. Consider also that hundreds of millions of people live within un-commuteable distance to a university. They aren't stupid or lazy -- they are just unlucky -- they happened to grow up or settle in a particular area.