How SNHU Is Edging Out Its Competition Online

A Matter of Degrees series story by Ryan Lessard and Brady Carlson.

Excerpt:

The week started with the news of Southern New Hampshire University’s new $10,000 bachelor’s degree program. Recent undergraduate enrollment numbers show the small, Manchester school is now equal in size to UNH in Durham, with a vast majority of its students online. 

To learn more about what the private, non-profit university has been doing to shake up the higher ed world, we turn to Gabriel Kahn. He’s a journalism professor at University of Southern California’s Annenberg School. And in January he wrote an article in Slate about SNHU called The Amazon of Higher Education. 

Here's the interview:

Infographic by Ryan Lessard