Reply to "5,000 online scholarships to be available next year"

TotaramSenior Member

This plan of providing 20,000 online scholarships may be just another PPP pipe dream. Starting next year they say that 5,000 scholarships will be awarded. I guess they will then continue awarding the spots until they reach 20,000. Let's put aside questions about cheating , quality etc. and focus just on cost and decide if the plan is feasible. I don't know where they are looking to place the students but I looked up tuition fees at the University of Phoenix and found that an undergraduate degree should cost about US$50,000. The graduate degrees are more expensive. For ease of calculation let`s say that the 20,000 scholarships are all for undergraduate degrees. At US$50,000 per student the government`s commitment over the 4 years would be US$1 Billion. Is this feasible?

10/28/2012:37 PM

<ul id="{%=id%}ButtonGroup" class="button-group h-popup-buttons even-button-group even-1">
    <li id="{%=id%}Okay_buttonContainer"><a id="{%=id%}Okay" href="javascript:void(0);" class="button success no-margin-bottom h-alert-modal-ok-button" role="button">OK</a><script type="text/javascript">
        (function() {
            function {%=id%}Okay_click(event, data) {
            {%=id%}Popup.hide();
        }
        
                $('#{%=id%}Okay').on('click', {%=id%}Okay_click);
        })();
    </script></li></ul><a href="javascript:void(0);" class="close-reveal-modal" aria-label="Close Modal">&#215;</a><div class="last-modal-focus focus-utility-element" tabindex="0"></div>
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
        (function() {
            {%=id%}Popup = new SS.Popup.ModalPopup('{%=id%}');
        })();
    </script>

Skip to main content

Membership Required

Remove From Your Block List

Manage Follow Preferences

Block

Premium Membership Required

GNI VIP Member

Please wait...