Apologies - I painted with way too wide a brush.
I’ve been to 3 different schools, all part time, to get my degree. The community college was decent, though it did have a couple of those big room classes with 70-100 students. Cleveland State was mostly a horrible experience, with the huge auditorium classroom for Chemistry, and an instructor that barely spoke English.
Mixed bag on a couple of other classes. Calc 1 was great, great instructor, calc 2 was the opposite with an unapproachable professor that was always the last to enter the room and the first to leave. Then there was the special “group IV” required class that tried to teach the “urban experience” and blame the banks for the city of Cleveland not paying back the money it borrowed and therefore going bankrupt.
I switched to Baldwin Wallace for my last year and a half. All night and weekend school. Mostly good instructors and professors, with a couple of exceptions. Yes, even at a school connected with the Methodist Church, you had a couple of “those” instructors that would give you bad grades if you didn’t agree with their views on abortion and such.
Economics, accounting, and business law were my favorites, though I really wanted to do the engineering path. But I was already in a decent paying job and could not get the classes I needed to match my work schedule. So I did what I could.
Oddly, my degree has absolutely nothing to do with my line of work. But it gave me a marketable piece of paper to go with my real world experience and that was helpful when I decided to relocate 20+ years ago.
In a sense, I do as well ... my experience of small(ish) classes almost exclusively is probably not the norm. I earned the BS at one of the Catholic universities in southwest Ohio. Due to the invasion of woketards and leftists in American colleges and the notorious 'diversity' emphasis in admission, it has become fashionable around here to deride the very idea of university education. I think that's a mistake. The system definitely needs to be cleaned up, though. The true value of 'higher education' gets obscured and diluted by the fluff and garbage.