Students must do their own due diligence, of course.
But it’s worth noting that colleges will shamelessly lie to you. For example, let’s say some kid is interested in theater studies, and so meets with an advisor from that department. The advisor will fill the student’s head with all the great things you can do with a degree in theater studies.
The advisor’s goal of course in not to help the kid, but to keep up the numbers in his department.
I remember when my daughter was finishing her BS she had a social science elective that she left until her senior year. So, she took a freshman psychology course; the prof in that constantly lied about all the great opportunity and high paying jobs there were in psychology. The department chair would come in during class time and twist freshmen\women arms to sign up for it as a major.