Harvard University is being widely criticized on social media after it announced it was moving its 2020-2021 academic year to entirely online for all students while also charging them the full annual tuition amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Ivy League school announced Monday that it would only allow 40 percent of its undergraduate students to live on its Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus and that “all course instruction” for undergraduates and graduates would be taught completely online.
“Students will learn remotely, whether or not they live on campus,” the school said.
Tuition for the year will cost $49,653, the same as it would for on-campus learning, the school said.
Only first-year students and those “who must be on campus to progress academically” will be invited to live on campus during the fall semester, the school said, adding that the policy would be revisited ahead of the spring semester according to updated health guidelines.
Twitter users accused the university of scamming students.
My periodic reminder to you all that with a $40+b endowment, Harvard is a hedge fund masquerading as a university… https://t.co/rzd31IkEPD
— Carol Roth (@caroljsroth) July 6, 2020
in 2019, harvard’s endowment totaled over $40 billion. the largest in the country. they’ll be charging students 50K a year to learn how to hate america via zoom classes. what a scam. https://t.co/oeJdko61N5
— Logan Hall (@loganclarkhall) July 6, 2020
Will all Harvard employees,
temp workers included, receive full salary for the year? Cafeteria workers, custodians, every single one of them?If not, there’s no way people should let this stand. https://t.co/T58X9ivBHB
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) July 6, 2020
For $49K you put a down payment on a $360,000 home with money left over.
For the $200K of that 4 year degree you can buy a $1M rental property that becomes your cash engine for life.
For a fraction of any of this you can start a business than within 4 years earns $100K/year
— Roberto Blake ? #AWESOMESQUAD (@robertoblake) July 6, 2020
Harvard suckers customers into paying for the world’s most expensive MOOC
— Caitlin Flanagan (@CaitlinPacific) July 6, 2020
