My undergraduate degree is in Speech Communications. I received it from a major four year public university. I did not know then, and I do not know now, precisely what that degree was intended to teach or what it allegedly qualified me to do. I took numerous classes in things like Conversation Analysis. I took Interpersonal Communication three or four times, or at least significant components thereof, under different course names. It was not a serious degree.
Thankfully my first three jobs required only a college degree to be considered. No one cared what that degree was, or the GPA I earned. Frankly none of those jobs required a college degree to perform, though they were precisely what I wanted to do and I am thankful to have that opportunity.
LOL! My brother is an excellent cop, choosing to be a county cop rather than a trooper because he didn't want to spend so much time doing traffic patrols. When he did have to do traffic enforcement, though, he put his education to good use--and continued to do so as a detective.
He would often be given the line, "I'm a student at the university," when he stopped cars on the Interstate. Invariably, they'd cite their major as English or Political Science, two of my brother's best fields.
Then, for example, he'd ask what type of English, and they'd often say "English Lit.," so he'd ask their favorite author or poet. If they waffled, he might suggest one, and he ended up reciting a poem or passage--but not by the writer they'd cited. They'd say, "oh yeah, that's my favorite", and he'd say, "well, that was Byron [or Browning or whomever he chose to recite], so how about you start telling me the truth!?"
More than once, he got, "Dang, I thought you were just a dumb county cop!"
(All that being said, it's a lie that everyone needs a college education, other than the fact that the minimum isn't being learned by many in high school! I'm so glad there are some good teachers out there, along with good homeschoolers!)
My point was a correction to the general statement that employers don’t care where you got the degree. I said that some do. And, since I have a state school degree, I’m quite happy that some don’t.