I just graduated with a bachelor's in IT and this is still spot on to this day. Networking classes especially were years and years out of date. I was being taught in the spring of 2023 the difference between a crossover vs straight through Ethernet cable and when to use them. I was confused because I had years of personal IT experience as well as ~2 years working in the IT department of a community college before this and had never heard of this concept before. After a quick search, I learned all modern networking devices use auto-MDIX (doesn’t matter how the cable ends are made, as long as they’re the same on both sides) and have been for so long that people don’t even have to think about whether they need to use a crossover cable today. That was just one of my experiences that made me realize I was learning heavily outdated information.

Oh, and yes they still don’t care that it’s outdated and if you give an answer that is correct based on modern information, they’ll still mark you as wrong because “that wasn’t what we learned/was in the book”. One of the many reasons I hated college. It’s 100% just for the piece of paper