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A Surge in Young Undergrads, Fully Online - LevelUP - 10-24-2022
A Surge in Young Undergrads, Fully Online
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/10/14/more-traditional-age-students-enroll-fully-online-universities
Are people waking up to the matrix?
RE: A Surge in Young Undergrads, Fully Online - bjcheung77 - 10-24-2022
Haha, LOL, basically, like I mentioned in a previous thread, these two (SNHU and WGU) are duking it out for online students... Wow, look at the number!
"Southern New Hampshire, for example, grew from 135,000 students in March 2020 to 175,000 today, according to Paul LeBlanc, the institution’s president."
RE: A Surge in Young Undergrads, Fully Online - ss20ts - 10-24-2022
A difference of 10,000 students is no joke nor a small number of students. The college in my town wishes they had 10,000 students. By adding online courses during the pandemic, they added a new to them 1,500 students and raked in millions. There's about 2,500 students on campus so 1,500 online students was nothing to sneeze at.
At least one college understands where they fit into people's lives. UMGC knows that college will never be higher than third on their list of priorities behind jobs and family. I'm not sure I've ever heard a college administrator admit that college isn't the most important thing in a student's life.
RE: A Surge in Young Undergrads, Fully Online - EDUxplorer - 10-25-2022
(10-24-2022, 07:26 PM)bjcheung77 Wrote: Haha, LOL, basically, like I mentioned in a previous thread, these two (SNHU and WGU) are duking it out for online students... Wow, look at the number!
"Southern New Hampshire, for example, grew from 135,000 students in March 2020 to 175,000 today, according to Paul LeBlanc, the institution’s president."
So it isn't just my imagination for the crazy amount of online ads I see from these 2 schools...
No joke, it is nonstop SNHU and WGU for every other ad I see.
I guess it seems to be working! lol.
RE: A Surge in Young Undergrads, Fully Online - bjcheung77 - 10-25-2022
SNHU and WGU are placing emphasis on their ads and then some... but they're pretty standard private/non-profit institutions that do cater to the majority of their students pretty well. They're no "Ivy League" institution, but they do provide an education that will suit the needs of students that apply to them. WGU would be slightly less expensive and true competency based, only in 4 sectors: Business, Education, IT, Health/Nursing. SNHU is more of an online player that requires 1/4th of the degree completed through them for residency purposes, they have a few more degree offerings though...