Deceptive Tactics?

[Jonathan Whatley]

Please focus on issues and please avoid letting disagreements become personal among DegreeForum members, everyone.

[cozykamura]

Please focus on issues and please avoid letting disagreements become personal among DegreeForum members, everyone.

Understood. But I do hope that respectful and intellectual members of this forum would do their fair share of research, including reading various reports from WASC, like the one - https://wascsenior.app.box.com/s/dwnzad9...dj9zj9zcq7, before presenting their questions, criticism, or arguments.

[durain]

It's not wordplay.
There are fees. If I sign up for cable TV there are fees plus what the cable costs.

The very fact that you are comparing this online school to cable TV business strategies casts serious doubt on the organization's supposed "humanitarian goals" 

Anyway, I have to agree: this whole commercial venture strongly reminds me of the kind of marketing tricks — not always transparent — that phone and cable companies love to use.

You can keep beating this dead horse but schools have fees, it is part of it, and expected really. You add everything together to get the full total of cost.

I just wonder why these fees are not specified in the school's online advertisements. The ads state it's "tuition-free", but they don't say anything about the "fees". As I mentioned earlier, a casual reader, especially from developing countries, is easily misled into thinking that "tuition-free" means "free". A more accurate, and honest, phrasing could be "tuition-free plus fees", for instance.

Yes, the new customer can go read the website, where the fees are indeed mentioned, but by then they've already been drawn in by a misleading, clickbait-style advertisement.

Just because you seem ignorant of how the majority of United States universities and schools work, doesn't mean that they are on the ones that are tricking you. Do better.

For the record, I graduated in the U.S.
But thankfully, from a real university
that does not belong to "the people" 

Nice to note that you hold a degree from  a brick and mortal accredited U.S. university. Given your academic background, I trust you will apply the critical thinking skills cultivated during your studies to ensure our discussions remain grounded in verifiable facts rather than unsubstantiated opinions.

Looking forward to constructive and evidence-based dialogue.