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[–] [email protected] -5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

The result of any degree is someone who can get a degree. Everything else is a potential bonus, not a guarantee at all.

In the real world the faculty would step in to prevent losing so many students at once (tuition is lucrative), and the students would learn a couple life lessons: cheat but don't get caught, and if you do then might makes right.

Getting a degree without cheating is an impressive feat and teaches valuable skills. Unfortunately the underperforming cheating frat bro at the back of the auditorium will use his connections to land a C-level job making about 10x as much as his former classmates.

[–] LemmysMum 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

They don't give the money back when you're expelled. They made their dime off the idiots.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The school still loses on enrollment next year (or next semester or however it works contractually).

I'm not all up-to-date on academic fuckery but I seem to remember that universities tend to do a lot of fucky shit to keep attendance rates up as it matters for a lot of metrics. Losing a quarter of a class at once is probably not something that looks good on anyone's KPIs (and god knows the real world only cares about useless KPIs).

[–] LemmysMum 2 points 11 months ago

These schools are in such high demand that there's no extended vacancies.

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