[sn9]

If you have a <1% pass rate from beginning to end, then that strongly suggests that your admissions criteria is intentionally low enough to admit students that are unprepared for the program so that you can take their money.

You could easily raise the bar without sacrificing quality of education (and likely you'd improve it just from the improvement in student:teacher ratio).

[wafflemaker]

Exactly that. Also, I experienced a situation where a free uni (eastern Europe) had low admission criteria and then had a "cleaning" math course, which 80%-90% failed. School still got paid for the number of students admitted, not those who passed.

In another European country, schools get paid for students that passed.