Liberal Arts degrees

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Talk to someone from India about their undergrad and they will tell you it was wholly technical. They don't study any liberal arts at all in their engineering or business degree programs and they finish them in 3 years instead of four. So my point is that a BSBA or other professional degree has plenty of liberal arts exposure built-in if its a US degree.

Exactly. Why waste time learning something that will be of no use to you. There's plenty of science, math, etc in the first 2 years of school.

I'm doing a double major in accounting and finance... but I had to take DSST astronomy. I needed a science requirement, like everyone else. I have no use for that knowledge. It's not that astronomy is useless. Having a good base of knowledge, a little bit of everything for the first two years is a good start, but beyond that I would want to learn something more concrete.

You learn plenty of history, economics, math and so on the first two years to make you a "well rounded individual," I don't need to do that for four years to prove my "critical thinking."

We're already far behind India, China, Japan... etc, on education, why widen the gap?