There are many things wrong with higher ed, but none is worse than the cost. It’s horrible. Universities waste money like you wouldn’t believe.
And when you charge so much, you get people thinking economically, in terms of financial returns on investment rather than in other, unquantifiable ways.
Liberal arts majors are not being trained; they’re being educated. And believe it or not, they are just as competitive for most jobs as are their classmates in the business school.