How much does it actually cost a university to produce liberal arts majors compared to STEM majors and what would their tuition look like if they only paid for what they used and what directly benefited their education?
Humanities/sociologies: $4400 to $6200 depending on subject.
STEM: $6200 to $9200
Above rates are for Danish students. Universities gets paid more for exchange students.
source: https://ufm.dk/uddannelse/institutioner-og-drift/okonomi/til...
a) Universities in Denmark have no sports teams, facilities or similar. Sport is something you do in your spare time in facilities that the city provides and you do sport with people doing all kinds of other education.
b) Universities have no dorms (there is a single exception to this). Dorms are independent "self-owned companies" which houses students from many different schools/unis.
c) No real prestige in impressive buildings. Students don't choose uni by how impressive buildings etc are.
As the state pays for the education, it has a huge incentive to keep costs low.
Would be interesting to see data on though.
My anecdotal sense is that STEM is significantly more expensive. Here are some factors:
1) Salaries for STEM faculty are higher than non-STEM, due to competition from the private sector.
2) STEM education often requires additional lab courses, with their own dedicated staff, space, and equipment.
3) Non-Stem additional instruction (discussion sections, etc.) is taught by non-STEM grad students, who are much less expensive than even STEM grads.
Also STEM classes are much larger, with many state school having more than 50% of their students declare a STEM major of some form.
Kinda like a microcosm for society.