I would say that it is because a bachelor program is a system that needs to be born at scale to be useful. With most online education, it's a single course. With a bachelors program, it's many curriculums, which is many courses in many areas of study. I don't see how you get to that and preserve quality. The only thing you may not have to scale is having all four years worth of courses on day one. You do however need all courses for the first year of study on day one and a commitment to provide subsequent years of study as students advance. But then it's chicken and egg. What student will pay for a bachelors program that has no guanrantees of the remaining 3 years of the degree.
The only way I see a credible one existing is if people focus on just coursework for one area of study, each of these being a startup, and then later on down the line, consolidation through mergers and acquisitions starts to produce a multidisciplinary program.
The only other path I see is a credible meatspace bachelor program moving entirely online.
I suspect the idea of a bachelors program will die before any of this happens. The increasing focus on indoctrination in higher education is destroying the credibility of the humanities departments. I'd personally be more interested in hiring someone that spent two years doing a focused engineering degree than someone that spent 4 years pursuing a bachelor degree that contains 2 years of engineering and 2 years of indoctrination and brainwashing.
The only way I see a credible one existing is if people focus on just coursework for one area of study, each of these being a startup, and then later on down the line, consolidation through mergers and acquisitions starts to produce a multidisciplinary program.
The only other path I see is a credible meatspace bachelor program moving entirely online.
I suspect the idea of a bachelors program will die before any of this happens. The increasing focus on indoctrination in higher education is destroying the credibility of the humanities departments. I'd personally be more interested in hiring someone that spent two years doing a focused engineering degree than someone that spent 4 years pursuing a bachelor degree that contains 2 years of engineering and 2 years of indoctrination and brainwashing.