More than 93% of U.S. college students say tuition should be lowered if classes are online

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More than 93% of U.S. college students say tuition should be lowered if classes are online. (via CNBCMakeIt)

"I would like to see a calculation around how much money is being saved by this remote instruction and using that to factor into a kind of refund to give to the students," Aaron Vanek, a rising senior at New York University told CNBC Make It in April after his campus was closed. "That seems like the fairest thing for me."

"Schools really need to do a better job of providing online education, not just Zoom in a hurry," says higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz. "So they'll have to invest in equipment and training.""Some institutions charge more for online courses," says Lynn Pasquerella, president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities.

"We've seen the perils of online programs run by for-profit schools where students have very low completion rates and are left with large amounts of student debt," she says.

 

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MakeIt Agreed

MakeIt Anyone who thinks online learning is just Video Chat U. hasn’t learned with us. We’ve always taught online, so we know how to make it work. Other schools are doing this for the first time (and it shows).

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MakeIt The only real question is, why are 7% of people answering “no”. Is that the number of people directly getting paid to teach at these universities? Idk

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MakeIt My online classes (which were online prior to the pandemic) were already more expensive than in person classes. Convenience fee I guess 🤷‍♂️

MakeIt Tuition should be lower, but not because of this. It should be lower because it's a joke how much college costs. It's not worth it.

MakeIt If only the colleges had giant endowment funds that could pay for this...

MakeIt Because it should!!!

MakeIt They should be lowered regardless. College is well overpriced basis return on investment,

MakeIt If you subsidize something you get more of that thing...government subsidizes tuitions and that's the main reason the cost of college is skyrocketing.

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MakeIt Nothing wrong with waiting a year or two until things 'normalize'... I went back to college at the age of 45 to finish my degree.. I actually enjoyed it at that age while younger kids slept on the floor! Their loss... I would never pay full price for on line classes.

MakeIt Good luck with that.

MakeIt Is this surprising? They’re the ones paying it.

MakeIt Problem the expenses incurred are not going to go down for the Universities

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MakeIt Said another way, somehow 7% of college students think college tuition prices should remain the same with 100% remote classes...thats shocking.

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MakeIt No shit. They charge regular tuition like we're using the facilities then add additional fees for not using the facilities.

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MakeIt No access to other on-campus facilities (gym, cafeteria, library), no shared social and extracurricular experiences? Online learning isn't as valuable for that alone.

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MakeIt I understand you still have to pay professors, but significantly less staff, less overhead, less security, less land maintenance, there’s absolutely 0 reason for a university to charge full-price for online learning

MakeIt Students say? Parents say same thing. They are the ones paying.

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MakeIt The professor still have to prepare the online class! Can’t fix naïve and stupid students.

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MakeIt Schools are saving money on overhead and should pass the savings along; especially when the situation is a life-threatening plague.

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MakeIt College Students are ignorant. Last week they support Liberals, who run the colleges and now they are challenging the liberals they support. Wake up College students you are being used!!!

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MakeIt I agree to the point of room and board, but technology costs money to maintain--it's not like signing on to Twitter or reading an email or having a ZOOM meeting. When I went back for my degree, it was online and offline. I actually liked the online part better.

MakeIt Colleges are ripping off students just like parents having to teach their kids but getting no school tax breaks!!

MakeIt Of course the colleges wouldn’t do that. They think it’s business as usual with classes, even if it’s online.

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MakeIt I bet their parents would agree at 100%

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MakeIt College: All courses will now be 100% online for the fall 2020 semester* Student: “What about tuition?” College: * = A technology enhancement fee of $100+ will be ADDED to the cost of each credit hour for online courses.

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MakeIt To anyone who’s actually taken online classes know how big of a joke they are... you never learn anything from them. Complete waste of time

MakeIt They should absolutely be lower

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MakeIt The onther 7% didnt read the question

MakeIt I pay the same price, before all of this, if I took a class online or in person. The difference, if it was online, I could do everything from home.

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MakeIt And the other 7% is too scared to piss of their college or has too much money to care.

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MakeIt No one cares what students think. Univeristies and the establishment are in cahoots. Universities bill students and the money pours into wall st. People in DC enable it.

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MakeIt Colleges should be made accountable for teaching. Make their tuition based on the student’s success.

MakeIt Fuck tuition should be lowered period. Average college is like 45k a year. Get the fuck out of here with that none sense. Why not take the money we pay senators for life and drive that into education systems.

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MakeIt And the remaining 7% want to pick up the tab?

MakeIt Who are the OTHER 7%?

MakeIt The other 7% are children of tenured professors.

MakeIt Bet we don’t get our tax money back that goes to public schools either if they’re closed

MakeIt there’s not one college cost related question you could ask me and my answer would not be lower tuition

MakeIt 100% - And it'll probably take less time to finish the degree as well.

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MakeIt And 100% of parents paying for their children’s college education say the same thing. 💰💰💰

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MakeIt All the extra fees that students pay into should be dropped.

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MakeIt You are paying for a Theatrical Experience & getting online streaming at home.

MakeIt There are plenty of cheap online schools lol. Thats like saying they should lower the price of a Lamborghini when you could just buy a Civic. You're the one who chose that school. Just choose a cheaper school if its online. You have no excuse like 'oh, it's too far away'.

MakeIt 0% of colleges agree

MakeIt Don't MIT, Stanford, others have free online classes? For the past few years.

MakeIt Absolutely!

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MakeIt US fees are ridiculous

MakeIt Boycott for a year. It will come down.

MakeIt Who are the 7%?

MakeIt College tuition is a fucking scam. Young people being duped.

MakeIt Absolutely accurate. Not worth the price in person and not worth the price remote. Robbing people of getting ahead in life

MakeIt Yep by 50 percent or 80 percent

MakeIt Obviously college students would pick the option where they pay less and I don’t blame them for that but schools shouldn’t base the decision on that

MakeIt This pandemic challenges the credibility of the high-priced “University experience”. How can they charge full price for online classes while looking down their noses at other colleges that have done this for years? This may very well be the beginning of the end ofthis monopoly.

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MakeIt So, two comments recently from the media. People want more money, $600 weekly, and they do not want to pay as much for school. I’m wondering who the person who came to this insight..wow!

MakeIt It is cheaper online if you pick a different school. Don’t expect the school you enrolled in to drop their price. They still have to support that institution even if students are not there. K-12 teachers are not taking a pay cut to teach online.

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MakeIt Should be lowered period. Mismanagement of funds everywhere

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MakeIt Absolutely! I have a economically-challenge Oakland mentee in college right now, and I’m livid that her costs haven’t gone down.

MakeIt College is unnecessary for most people

MakeIt University of Phoenix has been offering quality affordable online education for years. It CAN be done. Traditional universities been ripping off students and parents for years. Now is the time to make education affordable even if we lose some universities. Why do we need so many?

MakeIt I’ll bet it’s 100% of college students parents!!!!

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MakeIt And 100% of their parents...

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MakeIt Online college has been around for over a decade. Why now? Because it benefits them? Because it benefits the media to challenge POTUS?

MakeIt Duh!! If I'm not using your facilities I'm not paying for them. Not my problem if you need to pay for them. Your investment, your obligation.

MakeIt It can be 101% want it lowered... but they won’t ☠️☠️💯😰

MakeIt If teachers and administration stopped raping the coffeers, tuition would go down anyway

MakeIt It should be cut by 50%, Minimum!!

MakeIt Since jobs are being OUTSOURCED to countries that offer CHEAPER education TUITION FEES in the US should be LOWERED so that US students can COMPETE with H1B workers in the US who pay a FRACTION for their college education in their country. Are we GLOBAL?

MakeIt Scu isn’t raising the price of classes until winter .

MakeIt I’m sure 100% of parents feel the same. I do!

MakeIt What about online students? If tuition is lowered, wouldn’t that imply online students have been overcharged for years?

MakeIt The other 7% misunderstood the question.

MakeIt It should be lowered even if it was in person

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MakeIt We understand why students are frustrated. That's why we have always believed that quality education should be accessible, and we know it’s not just tuition that stands in the way.

MakeIt Agreed

MakeIt Interesting, because when you choose to take the online class version of anything at your university, I'm petty sure you pay the full price for the class. Some of us know how to prioritize & care about education over the experience, but we didn't get a break. And it is a scam.

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MakeIt DUH. Why should they?

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MakeIt Still cant figure out why online tuition is MORE than non-resident tuition at some schools. There also has been an unprecedented level of price gouging by many corps since covid19 and nobody is focused on this at ALL!

MakeIt Yeah, and they won’t have any degreed teachers monitoring or grading their submissions. So that degree you are seeking won’t be worth Schmitt.

MakeIt Should be lowered even if on campus. Not many education costs seem to be worth the investment, judging by how many can't pay back loans.

MakeIt I laugh at this. Because there is no way 7% disagreed. Fake news.

Reverend_Ducati MakeIt Tell them to stop signing promissory notes with their F.A.O. at the school until they are clear on the costs.

MakeIt Government subsidies in education are the reason for sky high tuitions.

MakeIt Kinda of a stupid poll. What did you think they were going say? Jeez

MakeIt nope. check previous years and you'll find your own school has always charged more for online classes. this isn't new and shouldn't be changed.

MakeIt Tuition should be lowered. But they probably will not. Similar to online movies. They charge much more than getting the same movie in a DVD at Redbox. If they can get away with it, they will. That is why we have local/state/federal governments - to help protect the vulnerable

MakeIt 1970 grad. No such thing as online....duh

MakeIt Well, they have learned something....

MakeIt They would reopen the schools before they lowered the prices

MakeIt DUMBEST survey ever. Ask them how many think water is wet? Everyone thinks tuition should be lowered, period.

MakeIt Breaking news! College is a scam and should be free. There was a time when high school had to be paid for and they made it free. Now a high school degree isn’t enough anymore so college needs to be made free in order to free our students of trillions of dollars of overpriced debt

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MakeIt First ...Work on the quality of online classes. Cut the in-person fees that you are still charged when you take online classes. Tuition in general should be free. I’m not versed enough to know how to make that happen but it shouldn’t mean a cut in funding from another entity.

MakeIt It's great when you attend a community college and the professor says I also teach at *insert 50k/yr private college name here* that's a few miles away. Where is all that $$ going?

MakeIt They are right. However, academia won’t allow that.

MakeIt What were they supposed to say

petenajarian MakeIt Pete, so you’re saying price finally matters when weighing the value of college? It’s about time. 😀

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MakeIt Should be lowered regardless

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MakeIt I agree with them! But frankly everyone would like lesser fees to almost everything.

MakeIt Imagine if people decide they don't need college, college football, NFL, Nike ... the list goes on

MakeIt Yes, and I would like my taxes back if the local schools are on line as well

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MakeIt And 93% say tuition should be lowered if classes are in person too...

MakeIt Who are the other 7%?

MakeIt Lol good luck. New fees for online tools. It's like taxes, they will pass it down to the lowest denominator and that is you student or rich parents of a student OR Family sending first generation to move up in the dog race. You can't put a name on a virtual learning center lol

MakeIt In other news, grass is green

MakeIt That’s just common sense. The online students aren’t utilizing as many of the college’s facilities or resources.

CryptoEcon_Li MakeIt Its should be way lower not just lower come on let the young generation learn.....

MakeIt Show me a college student who thinks tuition should be higher in any circumstance. Think McFly think.

MakeIt Not that college isn’t too expensive, but is the value of its education derived from its content or its presence? Personally, presence has significant value to effectiveness.

MakeIt Duh

MakeIt I totally agree.

petenajarian MakeIt They should be lower if the classes are in person, too.

MakeIt They should reduce salaries too for those not actually teaching.

MakeIt Supply and demand dictates price. People flock to online for convenience. Nonetheless, the education quality of online courses is poor.

MakeIt How did tuition ever get so high and still Schools lost Liberal Arts and the Humanities? Business became king proliferated from big building grants and land grant schools lost their purpose while supporting farm league sports for major league macho billionaire pedophiles.

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MakeIt Most college degrees are completely pointless. The people choose to play this game and pay these colleges for overpriced 'education' - then learn little more than social justice warrior BS.

MakeIt I'm guessing if you asked, 100% of students would say it should be lowered period. Or their parents, whoever is paying. Our system sucks. Tuition costs are a complete joke.

MakeIt Honestly 93% think it should be lowered period

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petenajarian MakeIt 100% think it should be free

MakeIt The ratio of market inflation versus Tuition inflation is ridiculous. Colleges have convinced us that degrees are essential and have skyrocketed tuition

MakeIt Is should be, online teaching is different from in person. Remove the fee for stuff like using facility,lab, computer,etc.

MakeIt I suspect 93% of students think college should be free...

MakeIt Why aren’t 100 percent saying it

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petenajarian MakeIt Absolutely! The solution so more kids can afford higher education.

petenajarian MakeIt If schools end up with some savings, it’s a pretty good idea to pass on those savings to their students.

MakeIt And if it can be done online, why ain’t there one cloud kitchen type institution that can take care of all. $1000 per degree

MakeIt The other 7% have rich parents and haven't taught their kids the value of money

MakeIt Tuition should be lowered as well as salaries of professors, instructors, teachers. Students paid tuition believing there would be classroom instruction, lectures, lab work, etc.

MakeIt Breaking: Most people would like to pay less for everything.

MakeIt ...wondering what the poll would show asking US college students if they think tuition should be lowered. Period. Guessing it would be close to 93%.

MakeIt Good luck with that — the liberal left has turned colleges and universities into industries dependent on high tuition...

MakeIt There is absolutely no reason we should be paying full price when we are not receiving the full experience.

MakeIt And 100% of their parents

MakeIt It’s funny that a news head line about an opinion by students which really is common sense. If most schools werent ran by libtards for major profit this wouldn’t be the case. To run up that debt without the real college experience is fraudulent but so is what they learn. 😂

MakeIt That's a no-brainer.

MakeIt Makes sense-we need 10% of the teachers now. What's the point of having American teachers? Even outsource teachers to 3rd World teachers.

MakeIt 100% of their parents want it lowered.

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MakeIt Wonder what a poll of K-12 property tax payers would show?

MakeIt Well hell yes it should be lowered.......

MakeIt Ditch college. Learn skills online or go to a community college or trade school. Avoid the 5 figure-per year universities. Learn direct skills and no fluff.

MakeIt Tuition should be free for all. Tax the rich. Cut the military. Defund the police and prisons. Legalize drugs and tax and regulate them. Tax the churches.

MakeIt Why aren’t the millennials protesting that!! Now that’s something to demand change on. Colleges bankrupting families with $60k per year hahaha insane! Nuts !

MakeIt College is a bubble that needs to pop..

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MakeIt Students should come together across the country to boycott online tuition rates. Especially if you're attending top universities who sell these students the 'culture' of college experience

MakeIt almost like they should do it huh

MakeIt 100% of college students' parents agree.

MakeIt 93 percent of students wouldn’t give a F if all classes were canceled but they could enjoy their normal social lives on campus

MakeIt Who are the other 7%

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MakeIt I agree

MakeIt Soon US diplomas will be worthless against those foreign educated

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MakeIt Breaking news: People like paying less! 😮

MakeIt There’s a technology fee. Some classes end up costing more.

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MakeIt Should be lowered regardless of classes being online or not.

MakeIt Students should boycott college en masse. That will lower tuition so fast, their heads will spin.

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MakeIt Props to all you teachers out there adapting to this new teaching method. 👍🏻

MakeIt Well, than it’s settled. Good luck with that.

MakeIt Ridiculous! Millenials at it again.

MakeIt Who tf is the remaining 7%?

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