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I learnt lots at university, and that has been useful at work, but the degree itself doesn’t seem to matter much. But I’m in tech, and Europe, and university was publicly funded

American universities keep raising the prices and people keep paying. There’s no reason for it to cost that much, beyond profits

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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
On the one hand I can understand that a good professor probably wants to be paid competitively. On the other hand I can’t imagine paying the same cost as a small house per semester.

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- lurklurk@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I think it might be a slightly wasteful system. I havent dug deep but this article with numbers from 2017 seems to hint that it’s not all to pay better teachers. E.g:
  
  A study found that the California State University system had 11,614 full-time faculty in 1973, and 12,019 in 2008. During that same time period, administrators grew from 3,800 to 12,183, ending up with more administrators than faculty.
  
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