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That’s tech biaised perspective. For a lot of topics there isn’t much resources available online, or not of good quality enough to get started and for this university classes are really helpful. Moreover, university and using the internet are not mutually exclusive: a lot of universities offers remote degrees. Depending on the languages you speak it can be very cheap (French univ are around 400€/year + one travel for final exam).

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While I'm fairly interested in tech things, I don't really have a tech background. Could you give me an example of topics with few resources online? The majority of subjects I can think of have good resources online, the only issue is navigating them as a beginner (which can be helped by finding some sort of mentor).

There are sites like MIT courseware that are completely free and allow online learning. Though of course, there are signaling benefits to online degrees.

> Could you give me an example of topics with few resources online?

Czech and Sumerian. Too much ressources is also a problem, as you said, because navigating into them is difficult for a beginner.

That's interesting, can you point me to any good resources on remote degrees (especially MSc) from French universities? My brother really wants to do one part time but can't afford it.

Yes, this website aggregates most of what is available: https://www.fied.fr/

It’s seems they redesigned it recently and it’s not super usable in mobile, but this is golden mine.

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