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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Universities will become less expensive when they become less necessary to having your resume make it by the first round of culls.
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Accreditation inflation explains why most young adults today feel they need to get a post-secondary education. It doesn't explain why the cost per student to deliver that education has been rising relentlessly for decades, with no discernable improvement in the quality of education being delivered.
Look at Mount Royal University. Who's interests were served by making it a university? By taking a bunch of 2-year diploma programs that met the needs of the job market and turning them into 4 year programs?
Not employers. As someone who has hired people who have the 2 year and 4 year versions of the accreditation, I can say the 4 year versions are no better trained. In fact, we've had more trouble hiring the 4 year graduates because their degrees are more generalized and you can't be sure they have the skills or are even interested in the job we were hiring for.
Not students. They now spend four years to get a degree that gives them no better chances of a job than the 2-year diploma did.
Not whoever is paying for the education. It now costs twice as much.
No, the only people who were well served by that change are the university, it's instructors, and administrators.