<p>As a parent of students enrolled in our flagship state university, which charges different tuition rates for different majors, it never crossed my mind that this would be considered controversial. I think the differences in cost are related to the relative expense of running one program than another and not so much about expectations of future earnings of graduates who had different majors. At our flagship u, there are several tuition price levels, and for example the tuition for studio art or music performance is higher than history or english. More expensive to teach the fine arts, but i doubt the small price differential is based on expectations of higher incomes for the artists and musicians. I do not think the higher tuition for engineering is dampening interest in top state university programs. And btw, at our flagship, the tuition rate list the student enters with stays the same for four years of attendance, tuition increases affect only entering freshman class.</p>