I’ve said this on here often and I’ll say it again: degrees are no longer about becoming specialized in a certain field, but about a means of securing a posh job and a fat income with benefits and doing nothing useful, much like the French aristocracy securing a Court position with a pension. In many jobs, a degree wasn’t even needed, just a work ethic and quick brain, but now degrees are given out in pointless subjects which anyone can study if they take the initiative. Our Ivy League universities are now PR status symbols for entertainers who have no problems at all getting in, despite being dumb as bricks and now we have irresponsibe single mothers getting a free ride while the responsible break their backs to support their own way through. Then of course, all in sundry are let in without any consideration as to their behavior and students are terrorizing the local towns when they aren’t whoring around their dorms.
So, I suppose you'll next try to tell me a graduate degree in women's studies has no utility out in the real world? /s