$30-40k a year Put another way, distilled to an abstraction, that's 30 students assembling in a room, to be lectured by one person, for maybe 6 or 9 hours, 4 o

$30-40k a year Put another way, distilled to an abstraction, that's 30 students assembling in a room, to be lectured by one person, for maybe 6 or 9 hours, 4 or 5 days a week, for two 15 week semesters, at that price. [0] So one full classroom is possibly a million dollars for 30 weeks of talking, plus textbooks, times the count of the course catalog and all scheduled blocks for the entire school. Quite the budget, to share what is hardly the undivided attention of a supposedly nurturing instructor. One could afford to be waited on hand and foot, for four (50 week-long, 40 hour/week) years, for the same price. I'd almost wonder if a private apprenticeship is more valuable, but then again, how to broker selection for who takes you on? Or do internships prove that this is all so much education theater after all? And this says nothing about how little adjunct professors make (very often less than $30-40k a year), which further compounds any negative interpretation for these kinds of arrangements. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_credit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Course_credit