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I feel $10,000 for an online course is way too much. Just because it carries a label of university doesn't make it worth it. Almost all of the knowledge is available online for free. Although a university course gives a structure around a subject and provides learning resources & materials but universities have to realize that because of this many people will not take these MOOCs. Because education is a business, future generations will turn out to be illiterate.


>I feel $10,000 for an online course

It's not just a course it's a degree. When you graduate you have a Masters degree that is identical on paper to an on campus degree.


It's $10K for the entire degree program -- 10 courses. That's $1k/course, almost certainly the cheapest college degree in America.


...have you looked at the price of comparable online CS programs? They're often much, much more than that.




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