Americans Are Losing Faith in College Education

Re:Americans Are Losing Faith in College Education by Bostonian on Friday March 31, 2023 @09:00AM (#35386478)

A recent think tank article is "Higher Education and the Law of Diminishing Returns: Shortening the average time-to-degree makes economic sense." https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2023/03/higher-education-and...

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Re:Americans Are Losing Faith in College Education by hollandays on Friday March 31, 2023 @10:34PM (#35396466)

Four year engineering programs should be shortened to three.

You can lop off a semester's worth of classes by removing general education requirements. You've already had 13 years of general education.

And then another semester by removing technical electives and such. Save it for the master's program. An MS is the new BS, anyway.

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Re:Americans Are Losing Faith in College Education by hollandays on Friday March 31, 2023 @10:53PM (#35396589)

This was my biggest complaint about college. There's no reason a bachelor's degree should take 4 years.

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