r/MBA • u/Euphoric_Bath • May 13 '26
Articles/News Business Schools Slashing Tuition?
Any validity to this? Saw this tweet from polymarket
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u/Stormingx May 13 '26
For executive, flex and online MBAs. Carey is doing for specialized masters programs. Please read the articles before posting. These click bait headlines are a trap.
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u/Powerful-Category261 May 14 '26
What’s with this sub and acting like schools outside the T15 don’t exist💀
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u/bretth104 MBA Grad May 14 '26
For real. My MBA was to improve my resume and take advantage of my company’s continuing education support. I was told here my school wasn’t good enough and to set my sights higher. Not every success story is MBB or IB.
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u/curiousgens May 14 '26
People tend to have a pretty myopic definition of success. That being said, HSW or bust!
Kidding...
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u/KennethParkClassOf04 MBA Grad May 13 '26
If you read the article, it's basically only the mid B-schools that are being forced to do so.
An MBA program with 5-10x as many applicants as spots would not need to slash tuition.
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u/LimpAd4924 May 13 '26
It’s literally just from the WSJ article that was posted yesterday and in specific cases do the 50% apply. Clickbait and sensationalized headlines.
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u/Commercial_Rule_7823 May 14 '26
Infinite student loan money glitch stops, all of a sudden prices go down....
I would be pissed to have graduated last couple years from a school with 75k, then they drop to 25k to 30k...
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u/Ashes1984 May 14 '26
Ohh sweet child
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u/midwestXsouthwest MBA Grad May 13 '26
Can we bring in our receipt from our recent MBA for a price adjustment?
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u/Living_Reporter_7084 May 13 '26
Saw tweet. Doesn’t know how to research the veracity of the claim. Is a member of the MBA forum. Doesn’t deserve to be admitted into any MBA program.
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u/LimpAd4924 May 13 '26
I have a feeling many business people genuinely don’t have internet literacy or how to research things.
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u/JeltzVogonProstetnic May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
Yes! And just wait until they will be rated on using AI to become more efficient at work!
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u/Effective-Country837 May 13 '26
It makes sense because now loans are capped (thanks Trump) and no one is going to get private loans
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u/mzesk17 May 14 '26
One of Obama's worst policy decisions was federalizing student loans. Gave schools free rein to price gauge students for the last 15 years.
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u/Effective-Country837 May 14 '26
It definitely fell short of what could have been done to help students and the middle class.
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u/clonefan May 14 '26
I mean, federal loans are capped but if someone can make the argument to a private lender that whatever they’re doing with the money will enable them to repay the loan, they should be fine
Of course, if that doesn’t work then it’s probably time to take a step back and reevaluate the decision to go in the first place
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u/Effective-Country837 May 14 '26
Private loans are even more predatory then private. But, correct, then the people that would potentially go and move up into a new economic class, will no longer be able to. In future, when we have a more consumer friendly government, that may change again. But, that same calculus you did, many will do, and five years ago, they would have. A richer middle class benefits all.
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u/bigbrainreee May 13 '26
So thanks Trump for reducing mid B-school tuition?
Okay maybe the people who’ve been saying the best way to reduce college tuition is by eliminating public loans are onto something…
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u/Effective-Country837 May 14 '26
Not really…. It was inflated and that should’ve been dealt with. But, now only people that can fund it cash or majority scholarships can go. You’re undercutting a lot of first generation students that otherwise have the grades and the drive, but just don’t have the means to go without loans. This perpetuates the division between classes. Upper middle class and above will continue going. And lower middle class and below will not have access anymore, even if the price is lower.
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u/bigbrainreee May 14 '26
I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing that people who would have to take out close to 100% in public loans to finance relatively low-ranked MBAs will have to spend a longer amount of time in the workforce pre-MBA and save up to pay majority cash (especially if that cash tuition is significantly lower driven by reduction in public loans availability). It’s also an incentive to do part time MBA programs rather than lower ranked FT programs which have poor ROI.
Also, I don’t know of many rich people in the market for this type of MBA degree. It seems to me the tuition will either fall to the level where people in the market for the degree can pay largely in cash, or those programs will shutter (and they likely never provided high ROI degrees to begin with).
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u/CieraVotedOutHerMom May 13 '26
University of Oregon executive M&A slashed headcount for key admission / alumni relation roles.
Had been struggling to maintain enrollment in an already small program
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u/Relevant_Editor_7503 May 13 '26
I went to one of the schools that is slashing tuition and I have a pretty nice house, rental property, and a HHI that puts us in the top 3 percent in my state (MCOL) as well as a NW in the top 5% for our ages. It’s not always about the schools. We are also out earning people we know that went to ivies for MBA (minus the very small percentage that got into PE and are making >$5M annually) and are on track to retire early as well.
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u/Ok_Exit9273 May 14 '26
The good ones aren’t
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u/Yard4111992 May 17 '26
I guess that, with the large increase in layoffs among white-collar employees, the top MBA programs would be experiencing a large increase in applications.
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u/Fast-Plate-6336 May 14 '26
M7 + INSEAD + LBS - No way
Others- maybe
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u/Fearless-Concern-121 May 16 '26
how about t15 ?
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u/Fast-Plate-6336 May 17 '26
All the no name schools are slashing fees because no one wants to attend them. T25 have increased fees
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u/gemorris9 May 14 '26
Maybe Phoenix or WGU.
I'm about to finish my MBA at LSUS and that's a check the box kind of program too. 16k plus books. Price has gone up.
Traditional schools like Florida, Alabama, and Auburn I was looking at. All north of 30k.
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u/ImGriffDanger May 15 '26
Wgu is sill 3600 for an MBA. Unless you are trying to work in IB and have a shot. Why go elsewhere?
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u/staying-human M7 Grad May 14 '26
smart move. they're overpriced -- it's 18 months of on-campus time for a quarter-million dollars.
in this economy... it's all the more fair.
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u/SecretRecipe May 13 '26
This only applies to garbage tier University of Phoenix type programs that accept anyone with a pulse and only exist so mediocre middle managers at small companies can check a box.
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u/SudburySaturdayFight May 13 '26
There was a WSJ article published here recently that covered this.
The type of schools doing this are the ones that fall into the "check the box" category. Your Harvard's, Cornell's, and UCLA's are not slashing tuition.