Record Fine for Grand Canyon University

Yes, I was trying to support your free market system point.

That is a super good idea about refunding the tuition!

 

Really surprised nobody brought up the Walden and Capella lawsuits. Very similar issues: the schools claimed 3 years for completion. The average student took 6 years. When you're paying $1000 a month for tuition (as you are at those two during the dissertation phase), the difference is enormous.

In the Walden/Capella suits, the accusations are that the requirements to proceed through each phase would change or were contradictory, so that you could never get an approved proposal.

It's unclear if GCU has this same issue (which implies malevolence or intentionality on behalf of the school) or it's simply that they promised students could complete their dissertations in 3 years if they completed each course in exactly the time provided, while most students needed more than 24 weeks to get their proposal written and approved, 8 weeks to collect data and run studies, and 24 weeks to write, which is what it appears GCU actually provides them in their 60 credits.

 

Believe it or not Walden kept running through my mind. Honest.

 

Walden is a good example.

Any school charging what amounts to full or near-full tuition for students in the dissertation phase are ripping them off.