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Lycoris1313 t1_j1dgzwo wrote

Reply to comment by eva01beast in [OC] The Average Cost of Attending College in Each US State by malxredleader

Tuition is the same across degrees at the same college. Ex. Getting a 4 year engineering degree at XYZ university is the same cost as a 4 year business degree from XYZ university.

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big_trike t1_j1dhsdy wrote

Is that new? When I attended college in the 90s, engineering school tuition was more expensive than the college of arts and sciences.

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Lycoris1313 t1_j1dlaus wrote

Maybe at huge schools (20k+ students) with multiple sub-colleges?

My undergrad was 6000 students, and all undergraduate departments/degree programs adhered to the same tuition/price per credit set by the bursar.

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eva01beast t1_j1duo3r wrote

That's crazy. Why should a literature degree cost as much as a chemistry degree when the logistics aren't the same? There aren't any labs to maintain or chemicals to stock up in order to teach literature.

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Lycoris1313 t1_j1dwsyi wrote

The university president and the other higher-ups needs to make their $1M salaries somehow. The money certainly isn’t going to the professors, to restock labs and fix equipment, or even general upkeep of the campus.

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Ok_Ad_7939 t1_j1e0el7 wrote

Not always. Some now charge more for engineering and computer science because the demand is so great.

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