http://www.egs.edu/

Distance learning independent graduate education system, with famous postmodern thinkers on the faculty and summer retreats in Switzerland. Tuition: ~$7000 annually.

also: you get an accredited graduate degree from Switzerland.

But also: academic community is 11/12 virtual, no tuition assistance.

But also: you might get to rub elbows with David Lynch and DJ Spooky.

But also: ...provided they show up.

Is it bunk?

LAD...?

This is one of the more amazing schemes for taking the money of hapless liberal arts graduates that I have ever seen.

Never been, but absolute shit as far as I can tell. As a doctoral candidate, I know enough to say that the degree you'll get from EGS will NOT get you an academic job. But the website has a cool video clip of Zizek, if that's worth anything.

As someone who is also wrapping up a PhD, I'll reiterate what the second poster said about not getting an academic job with that degree. Hell, I'm not even sure you could get a job at Wendy's with that degree.

I applied to a European graduate school. But I wouldn't consider going there unless they paid me.

ginandtacos.com wrote:As someone who is also wrapping up a PhD, I'll reiterate what the second poster said about not getting an academic job with that degree. Hell, I'm not even sure you could get a job at Wendy's with that degree.

Are you kidding? If you're into that stuff, it would be amazing. The faculty list is utterly mindblowing.

ginandtacos.com wrote:This is one of the more amazing schemes for taking the money of hapless liberal arts graduates that I have ever seen.

maybe since "jean baudrillard"

and he's on the faculty list!

just remember that your transfer credit will not take place, because "taking" and "place" are categories of the modern

deleuze wrote:
Are you kidding? If you're into that stuff, it would be amazing. The faculty list is utterly mindblowing.

Horseshit. Total hogwash.

Fly in a bunch of Academic superstars for a 2 week wine and cheese fest in lieu of a genuine, collaborative community of peers with whom you could establish real dialogue and intellectual connections? It sounds, from the fuck-all that I know about it, like an orchestration of all the worst trends in academia.

Gilles, it's little wonder you can be found extolling the virtues of a State-hyped multi-billion dollar missile defense system.


Interesting choice of username, by the way. Perhaps "Hitchens" would have been more appropriate(?)