Universities we're once institutions of learning and enlightenment. Apart from medicine and similar, they really only serve three purposes today: networking (as

Universities we're once institutions of learning and enlightenment. Apart from medicine and similar, they really only serve three purposes today: networking (as you mentioned), burning money in order to print degrees, and staying in the black. The intrinsic value of a modern degree is that it demonstrates that a person can finish something that they started, regardless of being a number during that process.