You could not possibly be more wrong. The student pays the university. The university pays the professor. This is not a small detail. Professors (and other tea

You could not possibly be more wrong. The student pays the university. The university pays the professor. This is not a small detail. Professors (and other teachers more generally) are not personal employees of their students. Beyond that, the student is paying for an education and - in the case of an MBA - an entrance into a professional world. He or she just got both. I would say this semester, he or she already got value for the investment.