March 6, 2009
Facing Recession, Colleges Push 3-Year Degrees
If four years' tuition is too expensive, how about three? The economic downturn is reviving an idea that colleges have experimented with for years, with limited success.
Hartwick College, in Oneonta, N.Y., is the latest college to announce a three-year bachelor's degree, which it says will reduce costs for students and their families by 25 percent, or more than $40,000. Hartwick's optional three-year program, which formalizes an approach some students already pursue individually, will
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