There was a time when young men who could afford it, used the college exemption to avoid the Viet Nam War draft. Many went on to get useless advanced degrees and ended up teaching in college.
This was the start of the higher education racket. Indoctrination replaced education and expanded colleges were merely for the employment of the politically acceptable professors.
This was followed by the meaningless study programs such as Ethnic and Women’s studies followed by the LGBTQ studies.
Intelligent young men are becoming savvy to this and are eschewing this route for useful trade school educations and the use of the Internet for their liberal arts education, free of the political indoctrination. Example is Hillsdale College.
Today, “Higher Education” has metastasized into a dying animal, not smart enough to accept it’s extinction and fall down.
If I had to do it again, I would have considered studying abroad.