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I think it's wrong to posit that colleges are selling credentials. When you enroll at any college, what you're actually paying for is the content of the courses
by finid 12y ago
I think it's wrong to posit that colleges are selling credentials. When you enroll at any college, what you're actually paying for is the content of the courses that you'll take for the duration of your enrollment. In other words, you're paying for the quality of the education that you'll receive.
So no, real colleges are not selling credentials. Sure, you can buy a degree online, if you know where to look, but that only gets you a useless certificate.
- vertex-four 12y ago> In other words, you're paying for the quality of the education that you'll receive. Sort of, ish. There'd be a lot fewer people going to uni for the abstract concept of "education", especially at what it costs in the US - the reason that many people go to uni is that you can prove that you've been educated under such-and-such a standard to future employers. That's credentials, and that's what people are looking for from a college.
- Retra 12y agoYou can't do anything without credentials. You can't just apply to a job and say "yeah, I know it all," when everybody else who 'knows it all' has a degree backing them up. It puts you at a severe disadvantage.