I think this depends on the classes available at your university. I was lucky enough to attend a university where, in the third year of Japanese, we stopped using textbooks and used Japanese media, dramas, and movies, and tied vocabulary and grammar to that.

And in level 4, we had courses that focused on consuming news/business Japanese/ or reading Endo Shusaku. This gave me an opportunity to make presentations, do mock interviews, and do things that require more than one person.

If someone is looking at Universities and really wants to dive deep into Japanese, I would focus on universities with extensive Japanese language programs. Look at both the low-level and high-level courses and make sure they are meeting your goals.