Alternatives to University Education

Welcome to “The Ben & Marc Show”, featuring a16z co-founders Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen. In this latest episode, Marc and Ben tackle the uni... (2024)

CNBC, 2017: “Research: Trade school, not a bachelor's degree, may be better for workers displaced by artificial intelligence and technology. So... (2017)

College is obviously expensive, but is it still a wise investment? On average, foregoing college in favor of entering the workforce + investing tu... (2017)

Marginal REVOLUTION, 2013: "Here, drawn from my new e-book, Launching the Innovation Renaissance (published by TED)  is part of a section on colle... (2011)

2016, In the first and second articles in the series we looked at the courses that are taken in the first half of a four-year undergraduate mathem... (2017)

New York Times, 2015. Tom Hanks is an actor, producer and director. His 2011 film “Larry Crowne” was inspired by his years at Chabot College. ... (2017)

"The college affordability crisis has gained much attention in recent years, yet prices continue to climb. Tuition increased 89 percent from 2002 t... (2017)

2U said yesterday that it had formed a partnership with shared workspace company WeWork. Any of the 13,000 students enrolled in the graduate degree... (2018)

Twenty minutes into my interview with CEO Rob Nail, and I still couldn't cut through the buzzwords about his online and in-person education startup... (2018)

Enough book learning. Let's get you a job. “What if higher education didn't cost an arm and a leg, and it were focused on getting you a job rath... (2018)

A new book makes “The Case Against Education.” It’s decidedly not something to give to a high-school junior looking to get into college. The author... (2018)

EdX, the nonprofit online-education group founded by MIT and Harvard, is quietly developing a “MicroBachelors” degree that is designed to break the... (2018)

Signaling -- not learning -- can explain why education pays in the labor market, and why we shouldn't invest (any more) in it, argues Bryan Caplan,... (2018)

Usually, when a hot startup gets acquired by an even hotter one, the industry cheers. But reactions to this month’s announcement that MissonU has b... (2018)

In an effort to improve diversity and non-traditional paths to employment. (2018)

Alternative higher education programs don’t always work out. But one former Harvard University dean is giving it a try. That former Harvard dean, ... (2018)

A Q&A with Ryan Craig, investor and author of a new book about the changing landscape for education and training credentials and the implications f... (2018)

Higher education is a mess. College students spend years learning arcana and quaint academic theories, only to be thrust into the harsh light of th... (2018)

When Paul LeBlanc took over Southern New Hampshire University, it was going under. Now he’s building the nation’s largest university by treating it... (2019)

Is a lucrative college-free job too good to be true? (2019)

Students, teachers and reformers are pushing back against the failures of mainstream higher education. (2019)

Google's new certificate program takes only six months to complete, and will be a fraction of the cost of college. a similar program Google offe... (2020)