Impact of covid-19 on MFE programs

[Alfam Kali]

With the covid-19 lingering around for months causing lack of enrollment from foreign students, are programs such as Steven's MFE vulnerable to shutting down?
My friend said this program has 90% students from china and 5 -10% from India. Paying ~$60K for a program that may not exist after a while may not be a good investment. It could be the first very bad investment in the process of becoming an investor/FE.

Any thoughts?

 

[binomial-torrent]

absolutely. an ms in computer science or data science makes a lot more sense at this point because even if it’s a subpar program u can probably still land somewhere (including like SDE at amazon)

 

[Alfam Kali]

Universities brace for a permanent wave of closures as coronavirus pushes schools to brink

The financial stress brought on by COVID-19 closures threatens to unleash a wave of school closures for an industry that was already struggling from demographic shifts, high tuition costs, and reduced funding.

finance.yahoo.com

 

[mez]

Universities brace for a permanent wave of closures as coronavirus pushes schools to brink

The financial stress brought on by COVID-19 closures threatens to unleash a wave of school closures for an industry that was already struggling from demographic shifts, high tuition costs, and reduced funding.

finance.yahoo.com

Interesting, butI don't think schools will go under. I don't thin Steven's is going anywhere.

 

[IntoDarkness]

idk about stevens. columbia campus is opening for fall intake

 

[VPoneday]

This was reported in singapore news

 

[longgamma]

With the covid-19 lingering around for months causing lack of enrollment from foreign students, are programs such as Steven's MFE vulnerable to shutting down?
My friend said this program has 90% students from china and 5 -10% from India. Paying ~$60K for a program that may not exist after a while may not be a good investment. It could be the first very bad investment in the process of becoming an investor/FE.

Any thoughts?

Its better to focus on the top MFE programs as they have better placement track record. Stevens grad programs have lots of issues even in computer science. They are having a hard time retaining professors from what I gathered in their subreddit.