This raises the significant issue again that colleges are attempting to do two things, in most cases they only do one of them well: Academia and Industry readin

This raises the significant issue again that colleges are attempting to do two things, in most cases they only do one of them well: Academia and Industry readiness. At my university, I learned very little in my degree that was noticeably useful in industry but then academia is not supposed to be about industry, usually, but about increasing knowledge that may or may not have an application. In the college I attended before university, I learned an enormous amount of information useful for Industry but it didn't give me much of a leg-up for the work I was about to do at university. Most industry work I have seen is not massively academic and does not require academic qualifications. In certain jobs, however, they make a point of requiring qualifications when they could probably run some tests instead to demonstrate that you understand the basics of comp-sci or whatever else.