Universities are often... influenced by big companies, and do not necessarily use technologies that are representative of what you'll see in the real world. The

Universities are often... influenced by big companies, and do not necessarily use technologies that are representative of what you'll see in the real world. They could be, by random chance, but it’s not necessarily the case. Anecdotally, I usually hear from people that it wasn’t representative when they are comparing what they learned in college to what they use in the workforce. It also really annoys me when universities teach their students expensive, proprietary software that they won't be able to use outside of class when there are competent and often superior free options. These students are paying good money to learn, and the universities are intentionally choosing to teach them something less than the most beneficial knowledge that those students could reasonably be learning about.