It may actually be directly caused by it. If you want people to come to your university, you need good post-degree employment figures. If every tech interviewe

It may actually be directly caused by it. If you want people to come to your university, you need good post-degree employment figures. If every tech interviewer phone-screens by asking about multiple inheritance and red-black trees, it's really not surprising that universities might tip the curriculum towards that sort of thing at the expense of actual programming experience. After all, if you can't pass the phone screen you'll never get the opportunity to write code.