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    "title": "Should Tuition Be Lower for STEM, Higher For Other Majors?",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2012-10-30 18:31:10 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Tuition would be lower for students pursuing degrees most needed for Florida's job market, including ones in science, technology, engineering and math, collectively known as the STEM fields.</p>\n<p>The committee is recommending no tuition increases for them in the next three years.</p>\n<p>But to pay for that, students in fields such as psychology, political science, anthropology, and performing arts could pay more because they have fewer job prospects in the state.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>An interesting thought: if you want more science/technical/engineering/math majors, charge them less. Conversely, charge more for the easier, softer majors. Via <em><a href=\"http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/10/a_bunch_of_argu.html\">A Bunch of Arguments in Favor of Regressive Tuition, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty</a></em>.</p>\n"
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