[Svartalfiar]

College tuition should be based on major/minor and career. The college application should include career aspirations. A degree in French Cultural Dancing and Literature should not cost the same as a Degree in Chemical Engineering. The one price fits all undergrad tuition system is deeply flawed in this respect.

Except a good portion of the undergraduate is the same classes. English, politics, history, government, art, econ, every degree requires the liberal arts group for your 'well-rounded' education. Shoild those classes be different charges based on degree choice? Or just the degree-specific classes?

UTA does something like this - there's base tuition charges, then different departments have a surcharge. So MAE undergraduate classes cost an extra $100 per credit-hour, or something like that. Degree program is even more, and graduate stuff more on that.

[TexasGator]

When I was at UF the NE department was heavily subsidized by government grants and external contracts.