[kyleschiller]

I used to work at Udacity so I'm pretty biased, but I will say that the concern here seems pretty misplaced.

"The reality is that the for profit school’s only goal was to make money for their investors. It doesn’t matter if the students are not able to find jobs in their field. It doesn’t matter if most students work dead end jobs waiting for a tech job that never arrives."

While it's not true for all programs, Udacity's nanodegree+ offers a full refund unless you can find a job.

There are perfectly valid concerns about the quality of the job.

Having said that, the even bigger and more fundamental difference between Udacity and ITT is that the vast majority of Udacity material is available for free online. Aside from the credential, what you're really paying for is personal feedback on projects. Because Udacity has to pay actual qualified engineers to give that feedback, it's appropriately expensive.

[wolfgke]

> Aside from the credential, what you're really paying for is personal feedback on projects.

The problem is that in countries as German, Austria (and I heard Brazil, too) there is a mentality of "credential or it did not happen". So for me, living in Germany, the only reason why I might be taking a course offering no credentials is that I am deeply interested in the topic. So perhaps it would be a good idea to offer a "very cheap certificate without any personal feedback".