Amendment #2 to H4099

Higher Education information to all students applying for or changing their major field of study

Mr. Durant of Spencer moves to amend the bill after SECTION 3, by adding the following section:-

SECTION 4. Chapter 15A of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2018 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after section 44 the following new section:-

Section 44 1/2.  Any public institution of higher education as defined in Section 5 shall be required to collect and provide to all students, when applying for or changing their major field of study, the following information: (i) The estimated cost in total for the selected major when taking the required courses to complete such major; (ii) the average amount of debt students who have completed a degree in such major in the past three years have acquired upon graduation for the chosen major; (iii) the professions that recent graduates within the major have acquired, within 1 year of graduation, including the number who have not received jobs and have not continued on to higher education programs; and (iv) the average salary of recent graduates, within 3 years, with the major.