It’s tangential to your point, which I agree with completely, but this is also exactly why I get so frustrated with the idea that higher education is about acquiring job skills. Ideally, regardless of major, a university teaches you how to think, critically and deeply, and how to learn. If you have those things, job skills are easy to pick up, but instead we treat college like an RPG skill tree, where you’ve got to put points into your intended career path in order to unlock the skills you’ll need to do the job.
Edit: although I do think university focus is important for subjects that are less about job skills and more about knowledge synthesis, such as most sciences, critical analysis, and so on, if you intend to not just do a job but contribute to the overall knowledge base of the field.
Edit: although I do think university focus is important for subjects that are less about job skills and more about knowledge synthesis, such as most sciences, critical analysis, and so on, if you intend to not just do a job but contribute to the overall knowledge base of the field.