This is not going to enhance the prestige of Purdue. I cannot see this helping Purdue’s graduates find employment.
Interesting. Purdue and IU were one unified campus in Indiana (Fort Wayne) and just parted ways.
My real concern is - Will this have any impact on Harry’s Chocolate Shop ?
May be Harvard will acquire Capella and Yale will take over ITT Tech. YAY
Under Mitch Daniels, Purdue has kept tuition frozen for several years. It certainly helped with #2 son. I give Daniels credit for going this direction. The trend is clearly going toward a more internet based economy and there is no reason to think that higher education will not sooner or later follow the trend. He’s positioning Purdue to be in front of the trend.
Consider that Sears led the way in catalog sales, but didn’t make the jump to a serious internet presence. Their lack of vision led to bankruptcy. Daniels is attempting to avoid that.
Their football team still sucks though.
“degrees” from kaplan, devry, Phoenix, et. al. are often viewed so negatively that many recruiters and HR personnel automatically toss résumés showing such “degrees”, and many people with these “degrees” figure that out and leave them off their job applications.
fundamentally, most of these “degrees” are scams and these “universities” exist solely because of Federal student loans being handed out like candy. students are being fleeced because these “degrees” are nearly worthless, and loans are almost impossible to pay back and are not dischargable via bankruptcy, and thus represent a lifetime millstone around a young person’s neck.
That being said, many degrees offered by traditional colleges don’t offer much better prospects.
Basically, the whole college degree thing has turned into one gigantic scam because of endless Federal student loan money unless the degree is a STEM degree from an accredited institution that is accredited by a reputable accreditation organization.
If everyone with a Kaplan degree gets it rebranded Purdue, they’re gonna be pretty happy.
online education has flourished ???????????