I would be willing to wager well that the number of foreign students coming here to study the kinds of things that US students prefer - political science, history, social "sciences", and all those other fields where there is no way to quantify how much someone has learned is quite small.
Foreign students come to study engineering, mathematics, hard sciences, medicine - the few exceptions to the higher-education scam.
I can't tell you how many people I know who have completely useless Political Science degrees.
Of course you're right. But college is like anything else, you pays your money and your chance.
College isn't a vocational school. They don't exist to insure employment. On the other hand, a college education is now the minimum for any kind of white collar, inside sitting down job.
Poli Sci, Sociology, Womyn's Studies,African-American Studies etc etc etc. Useless fields of study in my opinion.....
I heard Walter williams, filing in for rush the other day, say that the "Education Department" at universities is the "educational slum" of achedeima. He said it is an acknowldged fact that wtudents with the lowest SAT scores apply to get Ed degrees.
Williams also said that those graduating out of Ed departments seeking to get into law or med school, score the lowest on entrance exams for those graduate schools.
Thats who is teaching our kids today - their tenure protected by union rules. It is virtually impossible to fire even the worst peforming teacher in the public schools.