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What a Tech Company’s Big Shift Portends for the Future of the Master’s Degree

Higher Ed Connects: News

After it spent more than $850-million over the past two years to buy companies that offer professional education and run coding boot camps in conjunction with colleges, 2U investors could hardly have been shocked over the company’s moves to diversify from a reliance on contracts with universities for master’s degrees.

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Reflections of the Career of a University Expatriate

Edu Alliance Journal

Funding opportunities and grant support may be harder to come by or mainly restricted to nationals of the country. Graduate assistants and postdoctoral researchers are scarce in many localities without robust traditions of graduate education of their own. Import of laboratory equipment is costly.