A Sea Of Red

What say ye? Good....bad? Does this trend make it here?

An engineering student likely will make significantly more money after college than an English major.

So the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is proposing a new tuition structure to allow it to charge engineering students significantly more for a bachelor's degree than it charges English majors.

http://omaha.com/article/20110427/NEWS01/704279887

Hmmm, that's a tough one. At first, it sounded like it could work, as long as scholarships and other types of financial aid are proportionate to the tuition. Sounds like a good, free-market concept. But then, wouldn't this push more students to the cheaper majors, producing a huge amount of graduates for low-paying jobs? Of course it may also force more students to consider taking more community college classes where they can (which is not a bad thing). I think it's an interesting idea, and one that needs to be tried, but I think we'd have to really study the results to know for sure if it produces the desired results.

Schools already do this to some extent with lab fees, prerequisites, requirements, etc.

It'd be interesting for the people that have change their majors quite a bit (like me haha). As long as the University could keep on top of it then I could see it working.

Who says someone who graduates with a certain major/degree will find employment in the field or want to work in the field? I graduated with a degree in Bible, yet work in the computer field as an engineer. If someone finds a job paying below the pay level of his or her major in a career other then his or her major, will he or she have to pay still a higher fee if they took out student loans?

I agree wholeheartedly with this. Some majors cost more, some majors cost less. Why should me, a history major (which probably doesn't cost much), subsidize the cost of a Law School student?

Sounds like a great idea, but like 4everfsu, I also am in a job (disability analyst) where I'm making far more than someone starting out in a profession that my major (journalism) was geared for. If I didn't have a scholarship, I'd say I made out far better than someone majoring in engineering that ended up in my current occupation.