> It's always seemed a bit ridiculous to me that a credit hour of American poetry and a credit hour of propulsion systems costs the same amount, considering the

> It's always seemed a bit ridiculous to me that a credit hour of American poetry and a credit hour of propulsion systems costs the same amount, considering the wildly different overhead and input costs. I remember that (in a University in the USA) one credit hour of a real analysis course cost much less than one credit hour of a semiconductor fabrication course. The majority of the difference was in the "laboratory fee" which was several thousand dollars.