Legislation due in the spring could see measures to try to force more of a market and a wider range of lower cost degree courses.
For universities beset by heavy debts, smaller taxpayer subsidies and a cyclical decline in enrolment, online courses mean better tuition, higher graduation rates and lower-cost degrees.
"There are some niche programs where $10,000 makes perfect sense," said James D. Henningsen, the president of the College of Central Florida, whose school will offer a lower-cost degree in business and organization management next fall.
Universities are beginning to partner with these companies to offer accredited degrees, often at much lower cost than a traditional degree (see, for example, the recent announcement of an online M.S. in computer science by Georgia Tech and Udacity [8]).
In the past few years, hundreds of traditional universities and private, for-profit institutions have begun offering online advanced courses or graduate programs, including M.B.A.'s and law degrees, so busy professionals can take courses on their own time on their own laptop computers -- often at a lower cost than a traditional graduate degree.
Just as it helps adults who need continuing education, so cybereducation helps students who want a college degree at lower cost.
Rather, he left it to the three systems to decide how to use the money in order to assist matriculated students complete degrees at a lower cost.
Doing so, they save substantial amounts of money on the front end (about $40,000, by our calculations) and can then go on to complete their four-year degree at a lower cost.
2. New destinations are further fueling the competition Emerging markets are offering increasing opportunities for students who want to be part of their growth story and at the same time earn a foreign degree at a lower cost.
However, NGS achieves much higher throughput with dramatically lower cost, because of the much higher degree of parallelism and much smaller reaction volumes.
His sharp focus on cost efficiency ensured that London Metropolitan University can offer degree courses at a lower cost to students than the average for the sector, giving him what the business world would describe as cost leadership.
