[meyer]

I'm all in favor of standardized tests, not just for college but for high school as well. There are a lot of classes that are not needed - that if the student were allowed to show adequate proficiency on a test, they could skip and move on to the next level. In fact, I could see entire degrees, at least at the 2-year level, being completed without ever stepping into a classroom.

This doesn't work for everything, but it would certainly provide some much-needed competition for the education monopoly we now face.

If there were a true free market in higher education, the costs would not have risin at such an extreme rate for the last 10-20 years. How much does it really cost for the business professor to teach a class of 35 students 4 hours a week? The price tag far, FAR outweighs the actual cost.

[Mr. Blonde]

You can test out of a lot of at least first year classes already.