Accreditation is a scam already. Newsweek ranks are a scam as well. They should simply make the colleges list the course work of each major as well as the jobs and salaries of the average graduate. Colleges should also be liable for defaults on college loans.
I have sent 5 kids through college and I can tell you the million dollars I paid was not worth it. A boot-camp is just as good. The old idea that colleges teach you to think is just not true any more. They give the kids about one year of real worth while classes. They use filler for two years and then they have some sort of study abroad or internships for the last year. So you are getting maybe 2 years of useful stuff. And two years of stuff you could learn just by using Google. And of course a heavy dose of propaganda. English, History, Philosophy and religion courses are all dripping with propaganda.
Good points although the internships are critical to increasing employment stats upon graduation, it is a good question to ask whether this should be part of tuition. Also, there are general education requirements at some if not all schools that force the study of courses in departments that are not directly related to the student’s career but are required because of the long-ago model of university education as a place to round-out and produce a well-educated individual. Those requirements no longer focus on the classics, for example.