Colleges are not interested in that. Accreditation won't allow the required changes. Of course, accreditation is controlled by the existing members of the club

Colleges are not interested in that. Accreditation won't allow the required changes. Of course, accreditation is controlled by the existing members of the club; colleges don't want accreditation to allow radical change. Aside from that political difficulty, cutting the cost of a degree in half is trivial: get rid of the non-major classes. I suppose this applies even to non-STEM majors; there is little justification for making an English major take a class on differential equations.