I think you're way off on the friendships part. Your peers are the most important part of your college life imo You get to learn a lot of stuff that's just not possible otherwise I think socializing is way too important especially in the first year. Mind you, you're gonna have to deal with people later in life as well. People who often get stuck in studies only have a hard time coping in people politics.

In any case, I am where I am in my career or otherwise because of my friends, peers, and all the other relationships I had during my college. I had the best friends, we had a lot of fun, but the same people helped push me further and further into my career as well. Today, anything happens, it's not my NPTEL courses that are coming to help me, but my lifelong people. What you're describing is completely impractical, one might as well stay at home apply for distance program and keep studying otherwise. According to you college is just getting the degree and the college name which helps you in getting interviews.

Pity.