Waves of colleges will go out of business and those on the top may actually have to compete for students, right about the time that virtual learning becomes credentialed enough for hiring.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5523265&forum_id=2#47622393)

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/columbia-university-190150#:~:text=Around%2030%20percent%20of%20students,for%20graduate%20students%20as%20well.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5523265&forum_id=2#47622422)

maybe the prestige remains a little bit at first, but not past a generation.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5523265&forum_id=2#47622419)

Flagship state universities will most likely steal all the best students and faculty from regional colleges as the pool of eligible students slowly contracts.

The real problem, which no legitimate author will mention but XOXO can, is not that birth rate is going down. It’s that WHITE birth rate is going down, as well as Asian. You can invite all the retarded niggers and Spics to college as you want, but they will not get the same outcomes as white students, ever. So the slowly dwindling pool of students is actually quickly dwindling once you limit the consideration to actual high achievers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5523265&forum_id=2#47623659)

Whites got a little bit of a head start but it's a decline across the board

https://www.statista.com/statistics/226292/us-fertility-rates-by-race-and-ethnicity/

also not sure if you're new to xo but we don't condone the use of racially derogatory terms here. thanks,

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5523265&forum_id=2#47624149)

the kind of women who are going to get "education" degrees in the next 10-15 years should frighten you to the bone. just pray God it doesn't hit engineering departments

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5523265&forum_id=2#47624151)

Say college serves the following social functions, without bothering to order them:

- contains immature adults for a while before allowing them into society

- clusters demographics / phenotypes together so that they can bond before their careers

- gives some small percentage of students pre-professional training

- creates a tiny amount of scholars / scholarship

- sorts future employees by status and potential

This last one, in conjunction with the clustering types together, grants employers enough data to make informed decisions. "Okay, time to hire 5 prestige school alumni, 10 state school high gpa'ers, exactly 3 blacks sufficiently whitened by college, and 5 hr fat women.

This function can and will be served by performance on online learning platforms.

It is employers who are sustaining the current model, but the only benefit they get out of it is well-organized data. They can get that elsewhere

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5523265&forum_id=2#47624307)

this ensures a steady stream of gov't funding, rendering the rest irrelevant

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5523265&forum_id=2#47624479)

There are a few industries that hire college grads expecting proof that the grad knows something and can do something already. These future employees are the type who *will* gain the knowledge on their laptop at home as much as in a seminar on campus. Employers have no reason to indirectly support the undergrad scam except for its reliability in credentialing these smart kids, which it is doing worse every year. A dam will break when big tech just starts hiring people with online credentials.

There is the other group of students, who don't know shit, and have to be trained everything anyway. This is like 90%. Right now, a bachelors tells the employer that the person is sufficiently socialized not to be expelled, and capable of some direction, as evidenced by their GPA. But these are conditions that can be met in other ways, and I think they will be.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5523265&forum_id=2#47625254)

And for non-STEM (and some STEM) degrees where they care more about the credential than they do about what you learned in school, given that online degree programs are almost 100% non-rigorous (and cheating is rampant), why would you hire someone with an online degree than someone with a legitimate degree, even if it's from a TTT? Someone who graduated from a brick and mortar university managed to make it to class and take tests for four years without failing out, which should weed out the most extreme incompetent people. Someone with an online degree may have just hired a dude in India to take all his classes for him.

TLDR: There's lots of issues that need to be worked out before online universities become a serious threat to brick and mortar universities.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5523265&forum_id=2#47626096)