Exactly that. I told them I wanted to be a programmer, and they told me to do CS--I was lied to. CS is the only field where this happens, as far as I can tell.

Exactly that. I told them I wanted to be a programmer, and they told me to do CS--I was lied to. CS is the only field where this happens, as far as I can tell. There's plenty of degrees that aren't really useful career prep, but they're generally well-known--no philosophy major expects to graduate into the highly-paid world of professional philosophy. But if you're studying law or medicine or architecture, you absolutely do expect to be learning career skills. There's this bizarre hole in CS where students come looking for a law degree and somehow get philosophy training instead. And then we have a thousand blog posts complaining about how fresh CS grads can't code FizzBuzz, and nobody at the universities ever makes the connection.