My personal views about college education

[wnwnwn]

I think that college undergraduate programs by state colleges should be free of charge, at least for flagship colleges in the USA.

That said, I think that in those free of charge college there should be some limitations in the majors, minors and courses. These colleges should teaxh mostly 'employable majors' and avoid unnecessary courses. Obviously this wouldn't catch well with a part of academia, but I think it would be the better option in the mid term for students.

[Ferguson97]

How do you decide what majors are useful or not? It seems too arbitrary. Many people also don’t necessarily use their specific degrees, even if going to college itself was necessary. My dad was an English major, he now works in supply chain management.

[ReallySuper]

this is fine if you define the useful majors as the arts, humanities and social sciences, getting rid of nonsense like stem

[Cokeland Saxton]

Too subjective

[dead0man]

this is fine if you define the useful majors as the arts, humanities and social sciences, getting rid of nonsense like stem

well "useful majors" would be defined as "majors we don't have enough of" so yeah, nothing like what you want

[ingemann]

How do you decide what majors are useful or not? It seems too arbitrary. Many people also don’t necessarily use their specific degrees, even if going to college itself was necessary. My dad was an English major, he now works in supply chain management.

You create a quota for the different majors based on the employment opportunity for the individual majors.

[Ferguson97]

How do you decide what majors are useful or not? It seems too arbitrary. Many people also don’t necessarily use their specific degrees, even if going to college itself was necessary. My dad was an English major, he now works in supply chain management.

You create a quota for the different majors based on the employment opportunity for the individual majors.

That sounds nonsensical and arbitrary. How would the quotas work?

[wnwnwn]

Surprised there is no arguments agaisnt free college yet.
Maybe it´s because most people want it but not for philosophy, (n/x) studies or art history majors.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

How do you decide what majors are useful or not? It seems too arbitrary. Many people also don’t necessarily use their specific degrees, even if going to college itself was necessary. My dad was an English major, he now works in supply chain management.

You create a quota for the different majors based on the employment opportunity for the individual majors.

College should not be a jobs training program for employers too lazy to do it - and the people who need free college are not the ones who are going to economically benefit from it. We should be subsidizing the people who have valuable interests that are important to study but who will not otherwise be compensated for it by the market.

The 'employable' majors should be paying full sticker price. They can afford it.

[dead0man]

Surprised there is no arguments agaisnt free college yet.
Maybe it´s because most people want it but not for philosophy, (n/x) studies or art history majors.

"free college" is too vague of a term.  Almost everybody thinks poor smart kids should be able to go to a college for free and (I would hope) very few people think everyone should be able to go to college for free regardless of need or ability.  The argument is where we draw the line, and how crooked that line is.