Story from Fast Company about using various means to learn how to be a “Social Innovator”. Note links at bottom of story to other “alternate” $10K degrees:
- “Fast Company’s Guide To The Gen Flux College Degree”
- Entrepreneurship: “The $10,000 Business Degree”
- Programming: “The $10,000 Technology Degree”
- Design: “The $10,000 Design Degree”
kudos to Gary for posting the first $10k degree story.
One suspects it’s $10k because that’s a nice round number. But so is $5K… costs are wiggly for education as there’s more than just tuition involved…the time commitment reduces or sometimes eliminates the options to earn $$, and there’s the lodging/food/incidentals which can be larger for the portion of students who have families and kids and can’t live the
we often think of for students.
Adult students make up a large % of degree candidates… and many will “have to” find the absolute cheapest way to qualify for employment…which might be very fringy, and “degree mill” ish. Lot of work to do on re-imagining and restructuring the “whole education thing”… but concrete examples of how to do cheaper is a good way to start the process. Innovation by necessity, and all that.