I'm a firm believer in cutting down the university system to a more pure concept of it that existed before the 19th century. Lets get back to just teaching the arts and sciences. No more engineering schools.
Won't get a fight out of me.
Know what I learned, in all 4 years of undergrad school??
"You guys all need to join the IEEE, as student members. We need to form a professional 'union', to get fair wages, etc."
Yeah, that also went over like the proverbial lead balloon. One of my useless (an understatement) profs eventually became head of the IEEE, sometime in the mid-90s. I hope he was proud of himself. I would have fired him, long before that point. Lucky for him all I did was pay his salary, involuntarily.
My recollection was it cost around $500, per semester, when you added in the cost of books. I heard the BIG state school (another useless ag school, like the one in West GA) cost around $150 less, per semester.
I honestly feel the only reason I performed as well as I did, in my career, was that I started fooling around with ham radio stuff, back in Jr HS. There were a few others like me, in my class. We were clearly the best "engineers" in the lot.
We also had some of the worst grades. Apathy and boredom has a way of doing that.