UNC’s $97 Million Plan

[bjcheung77]

Seems nuts to spend $97 MILLION on launching an online program. Several of the schools in the UNC system already have online degree programs and have for many years.

That's true, since they have online programs already, they could spend less and merge all their offerings together... However, if they do get to that goal of 24000 and charge say 10K for each student, that's $240 million. Spending $97 million to get $240 million is a win in their shoes already, it's still risky if they don't get that number of students...