>Electrical engineer is AFAICT a protected term in some places and not others, so you legally can't do that everywhere.
I've repeatedly stated you can practice in the capacity of an engineer without a PE except in some exceptional circumstances. IDK why on earth you would equate "you can be an engineer" to "you can be in every single case." You don't even have to have the 'Electrical Engineer' 'term' title to do electrical engineer things in most cases, this is a total red herring.
>By the time you find out, it is too late. See also "The Market for Lemons".
Apparently not, because here and now we're discussing why EE programs are lemons . I've heard the same 'lemon' statement from plenty of people that washed away in the horrible attrition during my undergrad EE. The program wasn't a lemon -- those students were the lemons.
>University is a protected term in many places, so again, you can't "freely" do that. This is to protect against the information asymmetry that the potential students have, precisely because of the aforementioned lemon market issues if they don't, and even then it's not perfect.
"University" and "college" are not federally protected terms in US and many other places. But if you want to go one of those other places, fine, call it a "training institute." You're never going to find a completely free market, just because you are free to do something doesn't mean you are free to do it precisely how you like. You are free to work at McDonalds but that doesn't mean you won't be fired if you show up wasted half the time.
>Except the potential students don't have any way to determine that until at a minimum of 15 years after you start, even if they're unusually highly informed and highly motivated. And university tuition fees in many places are fixed, so you don't get more reward than any other teacher.
Great more entitlement. You're not entitled to have your business be instantly successful. You can start a private service teaching people if you want control of your own salary. If the market doesn't choose you, then you can make sad statements about how the "market is uninformed." Good luck.