The graduate and professional education market is ripe for disruption, yet much of the discussion on the changes coming to higher education have focused on undergraduate programs, like the kind Sweet Briar College operates. Persuading 18-year-olds and their parents to think of alternatives to a bachelor’s degree is a tough sell in a culture that celebrates the coming-of-age experience of going off to college. It’s much easier to offer a different pathway at the graduate level, when students already have a bachelor’s degree and they’re often paying the tuition bill themselves.
硕士及职业教育市场已臻成熟,不容易受外部影响。相反,在高等教育改革方面,讨论最多的是关于本科生课程的改革,斯威特布莱尔学院便是如此。学生们都盼着长大成人、走入大学校园,在这样的文化氛围中,想要说服18岁孩子和他们的父母放弃本科学位、转向其他选择,实在太难了。而对于已经拥有学士学位、学费也可以自力更生的研究生来说,想要说服他们“选择另一条路”就容易多了。
New players in the market that aren’t traditional colleges — the Khan Academy, General Assembly, Skillshare, Lynda.com, Coursera, and Dev Bootcamp — are starting to attract students who normally would have pursued a graduate degree or certificate. Sure, these so-called “boot camps” don’t have the household brand names of legacy players, but they are largely succeeding where traditional colleges haven’t even tried to compete: with “just-in-time education.”
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