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Yeah, it's hard to find that data, as any search is swamped by tuition-focused content. My anecdotal sense is that STEM is significantly more expensive. Here
by secabeen 4y ago
Yeah, it's hard to find that data, as any search is swamped by tuition-focused content.
My anecdotal sense is that STEM is significantly more expensive. Here are some factors:
1) Salaries for STEM faculty are higher than non-STEM, due to competition from the private sector.
2) STEM education often requires additional lab courses, with their own dedicated staff, space, and equipment.
3) Non-Stem additional instruction (discussion sections, etc.) is taught by non-STEM grad students, who are much less expensive than even STEM grads.
Also STEM classes are much larger, with many state school having more than 50% of their students declare a STEM major of some form.
- klooney 4y agoI mean there's STEM, and there's the reality that Computer Science is the tent pole discipline that people mean when they say STEM. And Computer Science doesn't actually need much more than English in terms of infrastructure
- CogitoCogito 4y agoI'd be surprised if math isn't one of the cheapest disciplines to educate.
- Ekaros 4y agoCheapness to educate doesn't seem to be really a factor in anyway. Just look at price of law degrees... A field where the laws or previous decisions don't change that much. Specially when you are going over the generic stuff.
- galangalalgol 4y agoMy cs department had a lot of fairly expensive computing clusters that got updated fairly rapidly. Lots of embedded boards that got updated less rapidly except that they got fried by students often enough. EE had a lot more expensive lab equipment to be sure. But their profs probably get paid less, not competing with CS jobs. It is still kind of strange toe that EE gets paid so much less. It is so much harder. But we just don't need as many EE I guess?