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.
You are very right that their are General Education requirements at almost every university. Those requirements are designed to fill classes that professors teach. If the university has a music department you will have a theater or music history requirement or at least music history will fill the arts requirement. Its just a game where they pay professors and then find something they can teach to students who don’t care about the subject. Its a waste of time. Because the subject is very much available on Youtube for free.
Internships are great. But that begs the question. Who is doing the teaching. Clearly the college has just turned itself into a career facilitator. And maybe that is all the students really need. But if that is the case, why are the tuitions so high? The colleges are performing the same task of a recruitment firm. They recruit students based on IQ and good high school work. They give them a year of obsolete training, then they match them with an intern company. And thats all. Everything else like football and dorms and school motto and fraternitys are fluff.