$57k+ US tuition per year and they get a small 13" MacBook, smallest iPad, and the powerful Apple Pencil.? ?
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Bowdoin College to Provide Every Student With a Complimentary MacBook Pro, iPad Mini, and Apple Pencil
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The students are paying 250k in tuition alone for a liberal arts degree you can get at state community college plus state school for 50k. Yes these students are “that stupid”.
Why are the students not permitted to select whatever machine within a certain budget to choose from? What if a student prefers a MBA and iPP.
Probably maintenance/repair costs on the MBPs are less.
Looked this university up...private liberal arts college. I reckon tuition is such that new enrollees won't even notice the 2k extra on their bill.
Probably mostly upper-middle to upper class kids trying to go to some place quirky and far away from their parents anyway...
Probably mostly upper-middle to upper class kids trying to go to some place quirky and far away from their parents anyway...
Better off taking a loan for that kind of money and have it increase by investing it in a house or crypto currency, heck even buying AAPL those students will be ahead in 4 years vice being in-debt and needed to repay it over time with interest.
this is equivalent to McDonalds providing complimentary ketchup with their French fries
The University I work at is thinking about doing this for certain degree programs instead of investing in new computer labs. They won't be free for the student, they will be rolled into tech fees and will be managed by us until they graduate.
Never heard of this school but looking at the cost to attend, it's probably baked into the tuition.
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SFSU is an example of a state university that charges $7,006 per year for in-state tuition. But California is willing to spend state tax dollars to fund public university. I think that most other states are nowhere near as generous. University of Maine at Orono is $11,744 in-state. UMass Amherst is $16,439.
One thing that they offer is small class size with 78.3% of classes with 20 or fewer student. I don't think that you have lecture halls with hundreds other students in them that are common at state universities. You can commute by limo or Toyota Corolla but you get there just the same.
Is there any privacy concerns related to monitoring if the student owns the laptop but is being serviced by the university/Apple joint program.
It's in the middle of nowhere in Maine, a very sparsely populated state that is losing population. I guess it's nice if you like hockey and skiing.
they don't even do that hereone bag of ketchup is 60 cent
I haven't been in a McDonalds in many years and don't plan to go to one for many more. The last time I was there, though, they didn't charge for ketchup. Maybe they charge for the packets and not the pump.
The US college 'system' is broken. At least the students will get something out of the typical 'other mandatory misc expenses' that many college tack on to an already absurd tuition fee.
They should also give these students an antiquated, slow Windows laptop that they can painfully troubleshoot, virus scan and update every other day ... to prepare them for what most companies will provide them with when employed.
They should also give these students an antiquated, slow Windows laptop that they can painfully troubleshoot, virus scan and update every other day ... to prepare them for what most companies will provide them with when employed.
CA public universities used to be free.
Anyway, the average in-state tuition at public universities in the US is 9k. Some states are higher, some are lower. In Florida (of all places) average tuition is around 4k.
In the 1970s when I went to Texas A&M, all state universities charged $4/college hour tuition for undergrad, and $20 for grad school. The state universities had several major oil fields discovered on the property they were given, so they were very wealthy universities. They still own the oil fields, still have the huge bank accounts, but I think tuition is now a few hundred dollars per college hour. Glad I went when it was still affordable, especially since I had to pay for it myself. I feel sorry for kids now.
Back in the old days, far fewer people went to college and there was a given amount of aid so a lot of that aid went to grants. As more kids went to school, the amounts of aid money didn't go up with enrollment so aid moved to loans from grants. I would argue that more loans encouraged universities schools to expand and provide more amenities, similar to the housing bubble before The Great Recession.