Online grads sue USC

[ThatBankDude]

The lawsuit isn't about ROI by paying $100K for tuition, if it was, then every school would be sued for offering English and History majors. It's about USC in-person vs online experience for payment. The tuition amount isn't relevant for the argument. Were the plaintiff(s) promised the same USC education online as they would receive in-person at the campus. From the article it appears they didn't receive the same USC education.

Paying $60k to $100k for an online master's degree isn't the norm. Hardly any college or university falls into that range of tuition. The lawsuit isn't really about quality; it's about USC misreporting the acceptance rate for its online program to U.S. News. The ranking is based on flawed data. Many would argue that U.S. News rankings don't directly measure quality; they measure reputation.

$60K to $100K is the norm for “top tier” universities. Which, in the grand scheme of things, is a very small number when looking at how many universities are in the United States.

I’d agree with your US News rankings testament…almost. If it were based solely on reputation, Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business would always be ranked #1 and #2. However, I believe in the most recent, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business was #1 while HBS was somewhere around #5.