re: Do tiny worthless universities dilute the value of actual universities

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You can get a history/english/etc. degree that is basically a social advocacy degree. Getting a literature degree used to mean you'd leave school having read (to a degree of memorization) classic works, rendering you a strong thinker and writer. Now I suspect you can get a literature degree from respectable institutions without having read pretty much any genuinely seminal work.

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I was a History major at Ole Miss (Class of 2010), which is far from an elite school.

And we read a ton of classic works. It was constant reading that you couldn't avoid without failing the classes.

As far as an education of History is concerned, it was quite solid. Learned to write lengthy, substantive papers as well.

And now I work in healthcare strategy and operations with a heavy dose of analytics and had to get an MBA to move up in my company


ETA:

I was thinking about law school and loved history, so it was a decent choice at the time. Then after graduation decided against the legal profession (thank god).

Also, I was lucky enough to waste my dad's money on the degree and not be in student loan debt