College is a scam for most fields. I left in my junior year to become a steel erector because of the idiocy I was exposed to on a daily basis in the classroom at my expense. It seemed to me it was an exercise in taking common sense and applying nonsensical reasoning and verbiage to justify the existence of the entire enterprise. As I moved up in the construction field my sense of the purpose of higher education was confirmed. Meetings consisted of engineers with multiple degrees making problems as complex as possible and counting on solutions coming outside the meeting room from people with real world experience and common sense-— usually without a college degree. But, the big money went to the problem makers because they were in the ‘club’. They deposited their checks, occasionally answered technical questions by referring to computer programs they could have learned in high school, and let the great unwashed make it all happen.
Thats the way it works everywhere.