Has Education Become A Business These Days ?

Well casually me and my friends were talking on this topic so i thought lets get a world wide view of the people of different countries

what do you people think on this topic whether Education has Become A Business These Days ?

 

It's becoming big business in the USA

 

Hell Yes! Of course, there are free government educational institutes but the environment in there is close to shit. It might be exception in some countries but I believe this is very obvious is developing and under-developed countries.

 

Well it use to be free now it's not so free
Ohh well lucky you don't need diplomas to succed in life (is a personal opinion don't start a dispute on this ..)

 

Education has always been a multi-billion dollar indusry.

 

I think so there are so many advertisers for join to collage they want you to spend your money with them figure if they can get you to go to there school how much does collage cost at least 10k a year even for a small local collage in your city run my the city.

There is a collage that has people advertise in a way you can tell lets say a guy named John has an ad with an web address saying to go there and it doesn't even end in .edu but it sends you to the school site and hes a referral so he gets a commission if you enroll there.

 

Yes education is a business, a big business. I left college because I figured that out and didn't want to play the game anymore, then I came to digitalpoint and never looked back. Who needs a degree when you can make $100/day while sleeping?

 

Yeah Education is becoming a major business in all country's .

 

Its here in India...a damn good business...

 

Why "these days"? It was always a business, may be not so profitable earlier, but now its one of the businesses which isn't hit by any recession. Absolutely risk free business. Another splendid example is the media business.

 

It has always been a business. From the point of view of the USA (and I don't doubt this is similar in other countries) the business concepts were offering quality education which led to organic growth and for them to be bigger, better establishments offering the best education for the money. Now the market is distorted with for profit universities valuing admission numbers over quality and ensuring that you leave with a worthless piece of paper.

 

Like my school teacher used to say 'you would only study in your class since you paid more money there' so yes its a good business.

 

I got 2 degrees but the school I went to didn't really teach a lot i didn't already know. But it still cost me almost 60k and than people found out i went to said school and don't like that school so I found work with friends.

 

I think so.

 

Yes it has become a business, consider changing from a webmaster to an edumaster

 

no doubt, its purely business now and I hate this. Atleast study should be free till high school.

 

Yes, it ia a very well paid business if you know how to take the advantages from this.
I would become a teacher if i would like more to learn theoretical stuff.

 

education and business is different.

 

it is definitely a business just like anything else. If there aren't really any opportunities for profits, why pursue it? I see signs of education becoming business in little things like for example, a college putting millions of dollars of funding into their sports programs or to rebuild their sports stadiums rather than putting it into the actual EDUCATION part of the school