[fruser1]

Stop subsidizing it. Prices will drop like a rock, basket weaving will disappear as a major.

[vikingd00d]

A simpler solution would be to deny student loans to students of ANY university that offers courses OTHER than STEM disciplines.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

First, let’s puncture the myth that everyone must go to college in order to be successful. That humongous, whopping lie is one of the biggest cons of the last fifty - sixty years.

[BEJ]

I don’t know if anybody is REALLY going to do anything about this. There has been plenty of talk but no big action. We keep harping but the words just go into the air like idyll prayers. If the right is too busy fighting itself, trump and boot licking the left then nothing will get done. Society will just continue on it’s merry liberal path to destruction.

[Buckeye McFrog]

It also allows societal deconstructionists like Howard Zinn and Bill Ayers to draw an upper-middle class paycheck while doing their dastardly work of tearing America apart.

The more of those types who are forced to go out and get REAL jobs, the better off we’ll all be.

[Truthoverpower]

If you’re going to go to the university have a plan and study a real subject like engineering

in a real subject like engineering physics math Mattix and so on there is no politics

You can also audit classes for free there’s online

classes and all kinds of other ways to get education for free

[1Old Pro]

OH, and colleges cannot discriminate, they must have a transparent admissions system based on merit- Fredo didn’t qualify to get into Yale OK?

[Hoffer Rand]

But 18-year-olds shouldn’t be trusted with much, let alone picking a school and a major.

BS. We allow 18 year olds to join the military and go into active combat situations. We also allow them to vote. If they truly shouldn't "be trusted with much" then we need to raise the voting age. If you can't make decisions about your own future, why should we let you make decisions about the future of the country?

[bassmaner]

Cut federal funding for schools that don’t protect the free-speech rights of students, faculty, and visitors.

Not 1 cent of taxpayer $$ should go to any institution that offers 'studies' programs or other cultural Marxist claptrap.

[thingumbob]

Now this is a great idea:

Require colleges to take an equity stake in their students. 

Automatic wage garnishment by the government to pay for its irresponsible student debt lending is a bad idea. But requiring colleges to have skin in the game is a great idea. Here, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio has some good ideas, as does current Purdue University President and former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels.

For example, colleges could be required to receive 10-20 percent of tuition as a future payment of a small percentage of their students’ income for 10 years after graduation. If their students’ majors and education helped them make a lot of money, the colleges would get paid. If the students made little money, colleges wouldn’t get paid. The result would be an incentive for colleges to align their degrees with the labor market, and a marked decline in worthless “social justice” degrees.

[SauronOfMordor]

None of that will work, unless one simple reform is done:

Allow employers to give standardized tests to employees, and be able to hire using those tests, without regard to whether any “protected group” passes at a lower rate than white males.

The whole reason for demanding a college degree for jobs that used to be filled by high school grads, was to try to get some basic level of literacy at a time when a HS diploma is worthless.

A second measure would be to collect statistics on salary X years after graduation, broken down by college and major, and publish it.