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Charles is at it again!quote:
The reality is that it costs $30,000/yr to edumacate a student at **** and $50,000/yr to educate a student at UT Austin (yes, on average it costs in excess of $200,000 plus living expenses for each undergrad degree awarded from UT Austin).
If a student is only going to be a chicken farmer, an Ag Development or Construction Science major and they can be educated sufficiently for those careers at **** at a cost of almost $100,000 less, of course the Higher Educating Coordinating Board is going to work with the legislature to make sure the student will attend **** and not UT Austin. It's easy to have UT Austin not offer certain degrees or only offer a certain number of degrees at UT Austin and the rest have to go elsewhere. As the needs of the state economy change for certain number of degreed professionals in specific fields, the offerings at the various pubic universities are adjusted.
One reason UT Austin is exempt from the 10% rule is because the demographic composition of the leaders in any field is much more important than the demographics of the rank and file worker bees in any field. If the taxpayers are going to spend $100,000 more to educate an individual at one public university as opposed to another public university, there is no way the grads from the two schools are going to be indistinguishable. If they were, the Higher Education Coordinating Board and the legislature wouldn't be serving the interests of the taxpayers. **** just can't grasp this concept.
I'm a construction science major and I resent that. I bet I make more than most liberal arts tu grads 10 years older than me. I can also tell you that in my experience, the vast majority of mechanical and structural engineers in the industry are Aggies. The only place you find sip grads are architecture firms, and they're the ones who get paid the least in the industry.