NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students

Re:NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students by _emacsomancer_ on Thursday August 16, 2018 @02:49PM (#17777473)

Then don't fund Shady St Uni. Put criteria in place for evaluating, and make sure the universities have skin in the game.

(Also, not every degree that doesn't immediately result in you making $250,000/year is worthless. And students are pretty motivated already in pursuing degrees that they see jobs in. Even if your education is free, if you put in 4+ years into something that you can't do anything with, you're still not profiting. Students themselves would still have skin in the game even with free education.)

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Re:NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students by WillPostForFood on Thursday August 16, 2018 @02:59PM (#17777555)

Ok. Do that first and I might support it. But the guaranteed loans for everyone system of today has not only inflated costs, it supports a bunch of worthless crappy schools. Go look at the list of universities in the US, and find the bottom 100. They are as offensive and wasteful as a $10,000 toilet seat.

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Re:NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students by _emacsomancer_ on Thursday August 16, 2018 @03:00PM (#17777563)

I agree. But that's not a product of free education.

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Re:NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students by WillPostForFood on Thursday August 16, 2018 @03:36PM (#17777815)

It is a product of guaranteed government loans, which makes it “free” for universities to take students.

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Re:NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students by romwell on Thursday August 16, 2018 @04:01PM (#17778006)

And here you see a difference between free and "free".

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