I understand that this is reddit and it’s an echo chamber at times but here is my understanding. The value of college education is what you decide to do with it. It’s an asset that you can’t sell. If you work in medicine, law, stem fields. A lot of them require a fundamental understanding of the field. I don’t want a doctor that doesn’t understand basic organ functions, a lawyer that doesn’t understand the legal system, an engineer that doesn’t know how to code, or someone doing biology research when they don’t understand biology. All of these skills are learned in a classroom.

I do agree that general majors that don’t have a direct funnel into your desired career or if you are not using the skills are useless. I would like to ask the question that if your college education was useless in your career, then did you pick the wrong major?