Not unique to architecture; in the past ~3 decades, every higher education department has had to justify their existence with grandiloquent overselling of their

Not unique to architecture; in the past ~3 decades, every higher education department has had to justify their existence with grandiloquent overselling of their major's external impact. It's one of the reasons why we're in our current student loan crisis. Milliennials bought all of the "Go to college!" propaganda hook, line, and sinker. We didn't know any better.