Education...at a price

Earlier this year I showed students a World Business video clip on Education City, as an example of globalization of education. That clip showed the promise and the expectations. Today an article in the NYT takes a look at that particular story, now. The piece, "University Branches in Dubai Are Struggling," is quite interesting and reveals that "...Michigan State, with only 85 undergraduates, is seeking to raise that figure with a scholarship offering half-price tuition to the first 100 qualified transfer applicants for the semester that starts next month.
“We’ve had close to 200 transfer applications, some from other universities in the U.A.E., but others from India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Oman,” Dr. Mullan said. “We are not compromising on quality, even if that means it takes us longer to gain traction here. We actually turned down 30 percent of our applicants last fall.”
Dr. Mullan said that while the break-even point for the campus was now expected to be five years, up from the original goal of three years, Michigan State was determined to remain in the Gulf..."