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Personally, I have benefited more from the human interaction and relationships formed while attending university, in person, than from many of the classes themselves. The people I got to know helps me more than the formulas I learned. I believe the people is what you're paying for when you attend an ivy league school. The math is the same.

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Actually, the math seems to be quite different: $6,600 vs however many multiples that Ivy League school charges.

This sort of thing, if it produces quality people, lowers the education bar and that's never a bad thing.

I think by math he means the actual lessons, not the cost. Calculus is the same everywhere, but you meet different people.

Calling it calculus is disingenuous. This is a computer science master, offered by one of the premier institutions on the subject.

Not all CS masters are equal. Not all CS instruction is equal.

Depending on these outcomes, the cheap masters in CS could be superior to a local, more expensive, in-person community college masters.

Sure, the faculty at an Ivy League can make all the difference. So can the faculty at a top-tier school like GT.

But will the faculty at Ye Old Community College make all the difference and warrant the 2-4X higher cost?

Take the best course - package it for online distribution - feed the world high quality education for very low cost.

Then the politicians say "look, we're educating the whole world with free high quality online courses", they dismantle the universities, people never leave their parents' house, and everybody in the world learns exactly the same thing.

Nevermind, I see now that high quality online education is a bad idea.

I'm glad we cleared that up.

yeah, of course, sorry I just said calculus because it was the first math class that came to mind. You're right, the classes are better, saying they are the same was wrong, but the point me and the parent comment were making is just that the main benefit of paying is the environment more so than the course curriculum

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