A few point here:
1. All students are adults, and their profiles are really very wide (from business owners, banker, house agent, Franchisor, Franchisee, and engineer like me etc.);
2. Very demanding from lecturers, almost every lecturer requested the group projects and presentations, sometime really busy with these kind of preparations and presentation of projects;
3. Topic is useful; at least much broaden my knowledge;
4. some of the lecturers are really good enough, they have a lot of wonderful personal experiences to share.
So far so good, as a conclusion at this moment, franchise may not suitable for most of persons, and may not make decent income at your initial startup stage. And maybe you will be the next failure since most of the franchisees will drop finally due to all kinds of reasons.
I don’t know what will happen on me after this program.