to ask another question about tuition fees?

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Following on from the many tuition fees threads, just wondering about the below. I had a debate with friends and suggested we'd have made different choices for university if skills shortage courses were cheaper or oversubscribed degrees were more expensive.

1. What's your degree subject?
2. Does it directly relate to your profession now?
3. Did you pay tuition fees - nil, 1k, 3k, 9k?
4. Would you have chosen a different subject if the fees were higher or lower?

I'll go first:

1. Sports Science
2. No use in current profession but needed a degree to enter
3. Paid 1k/year (if I remember rightly!)
4. Would still have chosen if fees were higher but equally could have been tempted by free tuition by doing a skills shortage degree

1. History
2. 18,000 USD tuition plus 6,000 USD room and board x 4 years
3. SAHM and have never done a job that directly needed a history degree, although I do think it develops other useful skills like being able read and write vast quantities.
4. Wish I had chosen something more vocational but there weren't opportunities in the States like there are here ie vocational courses, working for the NHS, etc.