Complaint seeks to halt school from claiming program offered by technology company 2U is same as its on-campus offeringLauren Justice for The Wall Street JournalGraduates of the University of Southern California’s online social work master’s program, accusing the school of false advertising when it claimed that its program was the same as its on-campus one even though much of it was outsourced to a for-profit company, 2U .
The civil suit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, accuses the school of charging the same tuition for both master’s programs—over $110,000 until 2022-23—while “in reality…USC’s online MSW program offers classroom instruction that is not the same as, but instead is substantially different from and categorically inferior to USC’s in-person MSW classroom instruction.”