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No that this thread is about UDC, but reasonable people can look at the facts of the issue and come to the same conclusion. The fact is that a UDC degree means less than one from an online degree mill like "phoneix online".

The 6 year graduation rate is a whopping 19%. UDC is probably the only "higher learning" institution with a lower graduation rate than the DC public sschools.

Add on top of that, that most of their programs have fallen in and out of accreditation the past 20 years, a degree from UDC is literally not worth the paper it is printed on. UDC doesn't even rank among other universities or community colleges.

Of the ~5,000 students currently enrolled in UDC, only 950 will leave with a degree.

Tuition for a full time undergrad at UDC costs just over $5K a year, $7K a year for a full time grad student. DC taxpayers give (and it is in this years budget as well) 50 million a year to suppliment UDC.

Thats a per student subsidy of $10,000 per year, when it only costs $7K for a full time grad students tuition, which the students themselves are ALREADY paying.

Look at it this way, with the 19% graduation rate, the DC taxpayers are paying $210K per graduating student, PER YEAR!

DC also has reciprocity with every state in the union in that DC residents get "in state" tuition privlidges in every state in the union.

NVCC, UMUC etc are all exponentionally better schools in every metric used to judge places of "higher ed".

Here is what I have been recommending for years.

DC admit UDC is a failure and has been for decades and quit shoveling truckloads of money down this bottomless hole.

The trade off is that DC becomes the nations most higher education progressive place on the planet (save for dubai).

DC offers to pay FULL tuition for a period not to exceed 4 years for any resident that gets accepted to ANY school in the nation.

Most will go to local community colleges like NOVA etc, which is still immesley cheaper than the $10K a year per student that we are already spending.

We save lots of money, DC students get free rides to more highly regarded places. Everyone wins.

Bu the first step is realizing UDC is worthless.

by nookie on Jun 4, 2010 3:45 pm • link • report