Ever feel you overpaid for a college class?

[Tail_Gunner]

I took my last quiz yesterday for my basic welding class I've been taking for the last 5 weeks or so. The final is next week.

The tuition for the class is based on the 4 semester hours credit for the class.

This is how things have transpired:
The only day the instructor took attendance was on day #1.
Attendenace was not required to pass the class.
Tests included 4 quizes & 1 final. All are open note, open textbook, and "open classmate".
All the 25 final exam questions come from the total of 100 questions on the 4 quizes. The graded quizes are returned, the final is "open quiz" also.

The lab assignments include 8 graded welds, 4 done with SMAW/stick and 4 done with MIG/wire feed. Also 2 cuts, one with a cutting torch & one with a plasma cutter.

The last assignment was a paper to be turned in. The shocking thing was it wasn't anything that I had to actually write. I could have printed out a Wikipedia article if I wanted to and that would have sufficed. (I did actually write a paper out of a need to satisfy my personal ethical standards.)

It is mathematicly possible to pass the course just by aceing the quizes, the final and turning in your plagerized paper, all without even touching a welder.

I can totally blow off the final, and still get an A-. I only need 7 of 25 points on the final to get a full A.

Even though I have realized some benefit from the class, it wasn't to the level of 4 semester hours and/or $1000+ tuition.

Overall, now that I have the benefit of hindsight, I'm feeling rather cheated.
The cost/benefit just wasn't there.

 

[BamaSixGun]

1000 bucks for that 1 class??? Am I reading that right TG?

 

[Tail_Gunner]

1000 bucks for that 1 class??? Am I reading that right TG?

Yep, something like $275 per semester hour for a 4 semester hour class.

 

[dpantazis]

Overall, now that I have the benefit of hindsight, I'm feeling rather cheated. The cost/benefit just wasn't there.

umm, as one who has advanced degrees, that goes without saying and is par for the course.

 

[WD40]

Sounds like a great place of higher learning. Just send in your money for a A-.

 

[JLDickmon]

it's becoming common..
they've viewed as cash generators for the university..

 

[DaveBen]

I attended college in the 60's & 70's and it was the same back then. The numbers may have been smaller, but they were the same in relative terms.

Dave

 

[hawkdriver]

I told both of my kids that I would NOT be paying for 4 years of college for them. You want free college money join the military like I did. I did tell them I would pay for them to go the Aviation College here (2 years) and they could get their A&P. At least I know they are actually learning a skill that pays good money the minute you graduate. If you get hired on with the company I work for they start out at $21 to $25 an hour. I think college is a cash generator and liberal indoctrination machine........just my opinion of course.

 

[Tail_Gunner]

I told both of my kids that I would NOT be paying for 4 years of college for them. You want free college money join the military like I did. I did tell them I would pay for them to go the Aviation College here (2 years) and they could get their A&P. At least I know they are actually learning a skill that pays good money the minute you graduate. If you get hired on with the company I work for they start out at $21 to $25 an hour. I think college is a cash generator and liberal indoctrination machine........just my opinion of course.

I just finished my 1st year in A&P school. I'm hoping to get in with American Airlines at Sawyer IAP (formerly KI Sawyer Air Force base).

What company do you work for? A FBO or an airline maintenance base?

You can PM me if you prefer.

 

[shhorn68]

Not only do I think I overpaid for smy degrees the university, where I got my MS, began calling me wanting me to contribute to the alumni association. The calls became annoying so I finally told them if they would give my money back I would give the degree back. That stopped the calls for several years.