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Universities had better hurry up with opening up their foreign campuses.
by kowabungalow 1y ago
Universities had better hurry up with opening up their foreign campuses.
- bko 1y agoThe universities could have expanded campuses and opened up new ones at any time. Harvard could easily double or triple their class size with no negative effects in terms of student body. They choose not to because it would dilute their brand and they're more about an exclusive club than educating students or doing research. Their doner class that finds their hedge fund doesn't like that. So let's not pretend these institutions are noble
- kowabungalow 1y agoLet's not pretend that was the topic.
- bko 1y agoWhat is the topic? You said they should now build foreign campuses. I said they won't because it would dilute their brand. And they could have done so in the US or abroad before this. What am I missing here?
- kowabungalow 1y ago> So let's not pretend these institutions are noble If only the noble deserve a reasonable state then welcome to hell.
- carlosjobim 1y agoThat's like saying that knowledge could be distributed by printing words on paper. Just ridiculous.
- devsda 1y agoAmerican universities are in demand among foreigners because they are a gateway to network and life in the US. If it's a choice between say Princeton in the US and Harvard outside the US, Princeton will be the choice for many.
- kowabungalow 1y agoForeign students interested in a US education have diverse motivations and Universities in/of other countries have done well selling programs that compete with the US' institutions for students that don't have that motivation. Soon that may also be almost all of them.
- guax 1y agonot only, they're seen as the top institutions and even if you don't plan to stay in the us having a harvard or mit degree is enticing by itself.