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There are entire master's degrees in 'GIS', which are essentially a whole year of learning how to use ArcGIS, from different points of view.

• Waterluvian 7y ago
  The amount of academic capture by Esri is crazy. Though to their credit my profs forced us to use QGIS a lot and learn enough Python to write our own workflows both in QGIS and model builder. I'd say most students still just became GIS button pushers but some definitely broke out of that capture and began making their own tools.
  • Xelbair 7y ago
    On the other hand there are people like me - where GIS course at university was basically "setup a postgres DB, load test data, add a feature in qgis" - and in professional work i had to probably re-discover everything. If someone with proper education in the field would look at my topology checking code, they would die a bit inside.
    • Waterluvian 7y ago
      My databases course was like that too. I think a lot of the point was just exposure to the principles and technologies.