Super Efficient Three-Year Degree for the Highly Motivated
For prospective college students who leave high school fully prepped to jump head-first into college, there’s a new money-saving three-year college degree option. Tennessee Senator, Lamar Alexander, likens it to the fuel-efficient car version of a college education. These days, that does seem tempting.
Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY is one of the first schools to offer a three-year degree option, but Molly Corbett Broad, president of the American Council on Education, is hoping more private schools will follow suit:
“Three-year degrees are a very important option, and I think we’ll be seeing more of them,” she said. “They won’t serve a large proportion of students since a three-year degree requires that you finish high school college-ready, enroll full-time and be focused.”
I’m tempted to scoff at the crazed intensity of cramming a college degree into three years, but I think it might be gauche to deride saving $40,000 in this day and age. My only concern, as per usual, is the thought that after thirteen years of working their booties off to get into college, kids who go the three-year-degree route will have no time to stop until they graduate and will then realize there’s a whole world out there that they haven’t had five minutes to really consider. I concede that it’s possible I’m the only one concerned about the mental and emotional well-being of high school and college students, but I feel it’s worth mentioning.
Posted by Alexa Harrington
@Bill–The Australian way seems much more efficient. With any luck, schools in the U.S. will take note and will begin morphing in that direction. Take care,
Alexa