A public university bachelor's degree for $9,000, and they're not kidding

Published May 03 2021 at 3:55 AM GMT

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Southern Utah University President Scott Wyatt, left, and Provost Jon Anderson are architects of a no-frills, all-inclusive $9,000 bachelor"s degree.
| Lee Benson, Deseret News Late last summer, a couple of weeks before fall semester was to begin, Jon Anderson, the newly hired provost at Southern Utah University, walked into the office of school President Scott Wyatt with an idea.
He said he thought SUU should start offering a bachelor's degree for $9,000.
That's a four-year degree for the equivalent of a used ..