<p>Could students then ask for a refund if their ‘anticipated’ incomes aren’t realized? I’m trying to think if there’s anything else where we pay a price based on potential rather than on receiving a service or commodity right at the point of paying - it’s early in the a.m. and I’m stumped. </p>
<p>If there’s a different cost in hiring medical school faculty vs. education faculty, it makes a little sense, but then we’re already in a system like that where med school tuition is higher. There aren’t many undergrad majors where differing levels of tuition make much sense to me, since many undergrad majors (liberal arts, for example) don’t lead directly to a vocation (nursing, engineering and teaching the only exceptions I can think of).</p>