Educational Propaganda in The Virtual World

Before, going to college wasn't done by just anyone, you were either extremely intelligent or extremely wealthy, or both. Things have changed though in the past decade or two, it is now becoming more of a norm and an expectation to go to college or some sort of secondary school after high school. with this new idea coming into play, many schools start to become competitive in order to achieve more prestige than others by recruiting the "best" students and in order to do so they begin to commercialize what their curriculum can offer to make it more appealing for future alumni. Some examples can be taken from the schools website where everything is commercial in order to attract more attention. two examples can be taken from UTEP and FSU's websites. UTEP's website is colored with the schools colors and has banners of some of the students of the school all over the website which actually helps emphasize UTEP's educational goal, anybody can get a degree. they accept almost all students into their school and assist them with paying for their classes to make it possible for almost anybody to get a degree in their field of choice if they really wanted to. FSU is more prominent and has more prestige usually and thus displays their school as such with quotes in their introduction as, "The best teachers teaching only the best students..." and the pictures and banners present their achievements overall as a school. in all these two school basically are opposites with what type of student they attract but both none the less use propaganda to advocate their curriculum and in essence increase the student alumni.