Ever feel you overpaid for a college class?

[Tail_Gunner]

I would like to take an opposing view on this subject of easy college. The colleges I went to were not easy. I did have a few classes that were easier than others but even the easy ones were good classes where I learned a lot.
I found the tech classes I had at our community college here in Muskegon, Michigan were some of the hardest classes I had. Electronics was not a blow away and found it to be time consuming to say the least. Out of 34 students that started the course, 7 graduated.
My undergrad and graduate degrees were completed at private colleges in Western Michigan and I would say, partly because I was working full time while going to college, I found myself on the verge of burnout with some of the classes I took.
Was my experience unusual? I think not. If the curriculum in any of my classes was to the level that has been mentioned here in the first post of this thread, I would have found a school that was more in tune with what higher education was about. $250 a credit hour is about right but calling your class, a 4 credit hour class is laughable. If it were me, I would report the instructor to the college administration. I took a welding course as an elective and we had many hours of hands on welding. I actually learned how to weld, and it was only a 3 credit hour class.
Jim

I took the welding class only for personal and professional "enhancement". It was no way required by the aircraft maintenance progrmam I'm in.

While the welding class had to be little more difificult than than bowling 101 or archery 101, the aircraft maintenance program I'm in is anything but easy.
Last August we started with about 42 people in the program. In two months when we begin our second year, there will only be about 19 of us left. Easy programs generally dont have an over 50% drop out/ failure rate.