(05-25-2018 09:19 AM)Kittonhead Wrote:  

(05-25-2018 01:02 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(05-24-2018 10:52 PM)Kittonhead Wrote:  HS graduates are projected on the decline the next decade or so also hurting things.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016...ly-diverse

Tack on to that a number of schools increasing the number of students they admit in order to use tuition to offset stagnant or falling state funding and a lot of regional schools face a big struggle, many have borrowed to offer nicer dorms, student unions, and workout facilities.

Its a food chain. Texas State is one of the schools that has benefited by rebranding itself into a major state school for Texas with a larger enrollment. Missouri State is another example of this.

This makes the lower tier public and private schools more desperate to compete against expanding state schools with new facilities. State funding, while declining is an advantage for the public ones over the privates.

Online education hasn't been fully embraced by the public yet either. That might push more of the smaller educational players out of the game.

My son has done some online and some in-person and plans to finish up with on-campus because he concluded he would be better off getting to know some of his fellow students and build on his network of friends.

I think it is interesting that the last stats I had seen, the ratio of online masters students was much higher than bachelor's degree students, presumably because so many masters students are already in the work force.

Used to go to church with a guy who in his late 40's started working on an online masters and in his mid-50's a PhD in construction management. He had been a manager for a LARGE construction firm. After the masters he was promoted. Within a few months of completing his PhD he was transferred out of state to manage a regional office and it must of been a nice promotion because his wife said she wasn't going to be looking for work and they made a big upgrade in house in a market more expensive than Little Rock and then upgraded again three years later.

Most masters students have a business network already.