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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think at 80K a year for a private school, it’s changed what people expect.[/quote]

OP here. I figured this would be the first response. But, for $80k, don’t you want your kid to be more interesting than just technically capable?[/quote]

Assuming 4 classes/semester, $80k/yr comes out to about $10k per class. Why spend $10,000 on some fluffy intro to world lit class when you can just read the same half dozen books on your own time?[/quote]

Because people don't read them on their own time, and because if they do, they don't talk about them with a PhD in the subject. [/quote]

Into to world lit is likely taught by an adjunct or grad student.[/quote]

Not at a liberal arts college.  [/quote]

If you can get basically the same introductory literature class taught by an adjunct for $100 at a local community college, why still pay $10,000 for the same class at the overpriced liberal arts college? If you have to take out loans all this fluffy general ed is just not good value for the money.[/quote]

If you could get the same CS education at the Montgomery County library summer program for $150 taught by a computer science teacher from Einstein HS, why still pay $10,000 for the same class at the overpriced Carnegie Mellon?  It's just coding in the end.  If you have to take out loans for all this programming you can teach yourself on YouTube, then CM is not a good value for the money!

Just watch the CS videos at home on your own time, while your sister reads all those Great Books by herself instead of getting a liberal arts degree! [/quote]

CS majors at least make $100k starting $150k for CMU
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Both of the above comments are true.  It is absolutely possible to teach yourself coding from Youtube and other self-learning courses and actually translate that into a real-world position.  It of course takes a somewhat unique person that is very self-driven, which most people are not.  You can also study CS at any number of Top 100  programs and do just fine as well.

The professor talking about studying a liberal arts subject with a ton of data analysis also makes good points, although I imagine the professor would admit that it is the quantitative data analysis skills that are resulting in the jobs, and not necessarily the holistic value of the degree.  Seems like the professor is saying that an English or Art History degree where no intense data analysis is involved, will likely not produce nearly the same outcomes on average.  So in a roundabout way, kind of confirming the STEM/quant folks.
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of course anything is possible 
good luck with that  :lol: [/quote]

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