[oddjob]

i think the courses should stay as they are. if you dont see the cost / time as having enough value for you, you dont have to take the course. the gains of the course arent large enough to be overly unfair for those who choose or cant afford to go to school.

spending energy on a course to finish it faster makes no sense to me. you enroll in school & the course schedule/ syllabus is planned out. just because you work harder/ devote more time than your classmates, doesnt mean you get to take the final exam any sooner than they do.

maybe you could devote energy towards studying, so that when the course finishes, you have a chance of improving upon the base stat gains, but i dont know if i see a need for that, and i think there are many other more important aspects of the game which deserve higher priority on the "to be tweaked" list, than schooling.