[norlys]

I'm very glad I'm not a student in the USA. In Germany, almost all universities are owned by the state, which means study fees are about 700€ per year - transportation ticket already being covered. And if your parents have low income, the state will give you a grant of which you'll have to pay back only by half. I know that this might be a unpopular opinion over here, but there are a lot of fields which are important for a society while offering a relatively low income. In USA's system, these become luxury goods. Fields like Ecology, philosophy, history, education or cultural studies suffer. I find the idea "it doesn't yield a lot of money, thus it's useless" weird, but that might be a cultural difference.