This New York college is a top-ranked school that charges zero tuition — but there's a catch

Business Insider ^ | 07/15/2015 | Abby Jackson

[SeekAndFind]

Zero Tuition, 100% Job Placement Rate, What's Not to Like?

Webb Institute is one of only a handful of colleges in the US that offers a tuition-free 4-year education.

Located in Glen Cove, New York, the school boasts a strong academic program, and is ranked in the "most selective" category by the US News & World Report.

The only catch: There is only one academic option for attendees. All students double major in naval architecture and marine engineering.

Students who attend Webb don't have the typical college experience.

With an enrollment of roughly 80 students, the student-teacher ratio is about 7:1, offering an intimate classroom experience. There are no teaching assistants, so students have high access to their professors. And rather than students changing classrooms, they stay seated all day while their professors change rooms between classes.

The rigorous academics at Webb certainly yield results. The school enjoys a 100% job placement rate, with students largely finding employment in the maritime industry, but also in engineering fields and in finance. Webb shares a list of the most common employment opportunities for graduates on their website, which includes Chevron Shipping and Rolls-Royce Marine.

The college is able to provide tuition-free school primarily due to its endowment, a Webb spokesperson told Business Insider, which is large considering the number of students enrolled each year. That endowment — $54 million as of 2013 — was left by American shipbuilder and philanthropist William H. Webb in 1889.

[Gaffer]

Harvard has endowments that amount to Billions. One wonders about the good they could do if they weren’t so ideologically and politically poisoned.

[knarf]

The way schooling should be done and a model copied by homeschoolers...

Sit at the kitchen table for hours and complete three or four subjects before lunch (or snack, if you're really efficient)

[Larry Lucido]

So, no marine biology?

[Vigilanteman]

Hope Mr. Webb left clear enough instructions and put an organization in place to prevent libtards from perverting his institution. The single challenging double major offered is certainly a step in that direction.

Cooper Union in NYC had a similar arrangement in place thanks to its benefactor Peter Cooper and the leftist maggots eventually took control.

[sphinx]

But how is their football team doing? And are the race/gender numbers ok?

[Buckeye McFrog]

People who have those majors generally end up living and working overseas, where the bulk of shipbuilding is now done.

[T-Bird45]

I wish the article would have covered the admissions requirements. I’m sure it’s no easy matter to get admitted. Off to the website, I guess...

[Gamecock]

Nah. If you want that you have to enroll at Miami’s Fast Train College!

If you are interested contact on of their former exotic dancers, I mean recruiters today!

[Redbob]

The folks at Ingalls, Essex, Chesapeake, and Newport News shipyards might disagree...

[T-Bird45]

Admissions requirements don’t seem too daunting for a motivated and focused student. They don’t have any room in the curriculum for screwing around, it’s a grinder from Day One. However, as the article points out, there won’t be any reason to be unemployed if you get the degree. The job listings page is impressive.

[DoodleDawg]

Hope Mr. Webb left clear enough instructions and put an organization in place to prevent libtards from perverting his institution.

It's been going for 125 years. I think they've got that part covered.

[dadfly]

bookmark

[Maine Mariner]

No, and no women studies, art history, or sociology.

[jonascord]

I do not know, so I'm asking:

Are the construction contracts at Ingalls, Essex, Chesapeake, and Newport News merchant or Navy? If one looks at US flagged bottoms vs foreign flagged, I would get the impression we don't have the shipping we used to.

These are opinions.

[Blood of Tyrants]

About $35 billion from what I have read.

[Gaffer]

That’s up substantially from what I checked on years ago (pre-Obama) Several times over, in fact. It pays to hide his academic trail then, I guess. Musta been a whole lot of insider information going on. Little Timmy Geitner, the Fed, the SEC, and all that? Life under Obama has been good for them.

[wsack]

—People who have those majors generally end up living and working overseas, where the bulk of shipbuilding is now done.

My nephew graduated from Webb two years ago. Him and two of his classmates got jobs in Seattle. I remember speaking to him about where the other graduates were going, and I don’t remember him mentioning anyone going overseas.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: But how is their football team doing?

They have NO FOOTBALL TEAM. Only the following sports are offered: Basketball, Soccer, Tennis, Volleyball and Sailing

RE: And are the race/gender numbers ok?

I know a few Blacks and Hispanics who graduated from the school (They are located not far from where I live). But I believe they have to MEET the academic requirements.

So, you are certain that even if you’re Black or Hispanic, you got in and graduated not out of affirmative action, but of your own merits.

But let’s be honest -— you can count the non-white students with your fingers.

[T-Bird45]

Here are the current companies listing jobs on the school website.

http://www.webb.edu/employment.html