Colleges Don't Have To Refund Tuition

Colleges Don't Have To Refund Tuition Because Covid Moved Classes Online, Texas Supreme Court Rules
https://www.keranews.org/education/2024-04-26/covid-lawsuits-lockdown-smu-liability-online-classes-texas-supreme-court

“Texas universities aren’t liable for the experiences students lost when college campuses shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.

Luke Hogan, a former Southern Methodist University graduate student and football player from Keller who was finishing his final semester in 2020, sued the school in state and then federal court. He alleged SMU stripped him and other students of an in-person classroom experience — for which he paid about $25,000 in tuition and $3,180 in fees that semester — when the school moved classes online as the World Health Organization declared a global pandemic.”

 

I was going to comment on having to pay more than $28,000 in tuition and fees per semester to attend this university, but... alas...
And that was before post-covid inflation...

 

Most of the time I feel like an online class and in-person are equivalent if done right. There were some art and music classes, though, where students completely lost the ability to actually practice their craft with an instructor watching and the materials needed. Those students deserved some compensation for the poor quality of online classes.