Posted on 06/14/2016 6:36:53 PM PDT by SMGFan
A Swedish college has been ordered to refund tuition fees to an American business student for giving her a poor economics education.
The Vastmanland court ruled Tuesday the Malardalen University's two-year program "Analytical Finance" that Connie Askenback attended from 2011 to 2013 "had no practical value."
The court noted Sweden's Higher Education Authority in 2013 had expressed criticism of the program, and ordered the college to pay her back her tuition fees of 170,182 kronor ($20,544) plus interest.
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Is that like womyn studies?
170,182 kronor?
Love to see them count it out: a ten kroner, a five kroner, a twenty kroner? No wait, that’s another ten kroner.
Our university students are paying out the nose to be lied to about economics too. They should demand refunds and the colleges should be sued out of existence.
Excellent.
Someone should bring a class action suit against all of these liberal universities and their brainwashing ‘classes’.
The Implied Warranty of Merchantability?
My gut reaction is to agree with you regarding colleges peddling courses leading to worthless degrees at great cost, but the prospective student has the larger obligation in doing due diligence concerning potential return on investment.
As much as is wrong with what remains of Sweden, it seems their courts did the right thing in this case.
Well, now the majority of students in the US can get a refund too.
no wait, those with useless degrees got their ‘education’ for nothing... paid for by taxpayers.
She should have gone for Austrian Economics.
The plaintiff is Askenback?
Was the judge Givenback?
Free two-year vacation in Sweden.
Not bad.
Why wouldn’t a finance degree have practical value? Many USA students major in finance.
Rules gentleman, rules please. Could we not have a picture of the Swedish Bikini Team?
Why was her degree useless? I know people on the higher end (econ PhDs, finance and accounting PhDs (I’m a PhD)) and they are all well employed with options. Is it that having only an undergraduate degree in econ isn’t very useful?
Yeah, real smart to go to a socialist country to learn economics. /s
Unfortunately, universities are consistently peddling the Keynesian and Friedmanist crap over the empirically validated Austrian school. I *think* George Mason University teaches Austrian economics, but otherwise you’d have to go to a college which is under the radar if you want to learn the truth.
My brother earned a Economics degree from Loyola, New Orleans. I think they taught Austrian school.
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