There are too many required electives. One move that would help both students and employers (who require those expensive degrees for prospective employees) would be to limit the degree requirements to only the core cources.
That would make too much sense
About twenty years ago...my brother transferred from a community college over to the state university. He figured he’d have to put up around twenty classes over two years, and that they’d accept everything from the state community college. In the end, it was twenty-three classes that they required, and they pulled this one odd-ball business class out....for an electrical engineering class. There was basically nothing that he learned from this business class, and he challenged the counselor to explain the necessity...with the only response as “mandated”.
I suspect that the colleges are geared toward making cash in the end...no matter what kind of degree you want.
I fully agree; too many colleges and universities have so many other additional courses that just distract the students and then end up (if you can believe it) just being more bureaucratic fluff that exists to glorify the professors and give them all that much more pointless influence over your future.