Why Is College in America So Expensive?

[ucbalumnus]

@suzyQ7

This topic is interesting to me. I’ve also always wondered if there was an analysis of the outcome of students that major specially in non US schools (almost every course is in the major) vs the liberal arts method (even at national universities) here in the US. The liberal arts method of generic courses as 1/3 of the college degree increases costs as colleges have to have many different departments.

But then isn’t it the case that in some other countries, “liberal arts general education” is supposed to occur in upper high school rather than lower university?

Perhaps an analog in the US would be a college that allows substantially all general education requirements to be fulfilled by AP, IB, and college credit earned while in high school, and has students who do so.

Another possible analog in the US would be the few open curriculum schools, where students can take everything in their majors.