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A comment on Harvard and MIT's $800M Mistake: The Triple Failure of 2U, EdX, and Axim. Parent comment

Re:Harvard and MIT's $800M Mistake: The Triple Failure of 2U... by fragmede on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @12:00AM (#41364456)
For the wealthy, University degrees might just be a Veblen good.

It might be the "same", but there will be people that judge them for getting the cheap one.

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Re:Harvard and MIT's $800M Mistake: The Triple Failure of 2U... by nine_k on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @12:27AM (#41364566)
$5k is for education, $45k is for campus life with offspring of the right families. May be a good deal from a purely rational standpoint.
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Re:Harvard and MIT's $800M Mistake: The Triple Failure of 2U... by csomar on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @12:29AM (#41364569)
If they are the same, there shouldn't be any difference between the two issued. It'd be possible to know only by asking the candidate.
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