Asklemmy

Online is only really better for lower levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. As you work your way up from default memorization, in person learning starts to shine.

Also, a bachelor's degree isn't supposed to just teach you hard skills, but also soft skills to make you a leader. It is a lot harder to teach leadership when students don't have to deal with people.

People ask the strangest things of pseudonymous internet randos instead of subject-matter experts.

People still want to see people.

And, of course, you can make more money when you force everyone to come in.

A lot of people here are saying it's cheaper to run in person...

For purely theoretical degrees, that's not true: having to maintain a campus is way more expensive than just doing things remotely, but for more vocational degrees it definitely is: imagine having to send a fume hood or injection moulder or oscilloscope out to every student as well as chase up getting it returned, along with shipping any hazardous materials like batteries, acid, biological samples etc. out, and verifying that people are actually handling those correctly?...

For science, medical and engineering degrees, online tuition is just going to produce people vastly underprepared for work in anything that requires the skills & knowledge the degree is meant to provide you, and as they're the most expensive programs to run you can subsidise them with the other degrees, but only if they're treated as comparable, ie being on the same campus.

Probably because being efficient and effective are not profitable. One requirement for my studies was being present. All those boring hours spent looking out of the window can be counted to study hours. That won't work when you can work in your own pace at home.

Because it sucks

I went to UCSB for 5 years and can confirm that I actually learned everything on khan academy for free

More profitable if you’re onsite.