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Who the heck in their right mind spends $100k (on average) on an undergraduate degree?! My local state university offers a decent education for <$40k. If you k
by elblanco 16y ago
Who the heck in their right mind spends $100k (on average) on an undergraduate degree?!
My local state university offers a decent education for <$40k. If you knock out the first 2 years at a local community college (because as an engineer does it really matter where I get my Western Civ course credits?) you can shave another $12k off for a grand total of $32k.
Hell, you can an A.S., a B.S. an M.S. and a PhD for less than $100k and have plenty of drinking money left over.
$100k for an education...ridiculous.
- cynicalkane 16y agoYeah, the Good Will Hunting fantasy about how you don't need a good education, just natural intelligence and motivation. Maybe that's true for some people, but to say that a good liberal arts school is worth the same as a community college is completely absurd. And it's more true, not less true, for a class such as "Western Civ".
- elblanco 16y agoI wasn't aware that people go to one school for their engineering classes, then haul ass across the country to a liberal arts college for their history electives. That notion seems absurd. :) If you want to major in History (and enjoy the really bad pay-scale that comes with that), you'll probably get the best education at a liberal arts school, but the cost-benefit analysis is even worse.
- cynicalkane 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_college http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_college I don't think there are any good engineering colleges or universities that are not also liberal arts schools, and many good liberal arts schools offer engineering.