One way to fix this is to completely break the apprenticeship model of higher academia and professional careers. For Law, Medicine, and any other field requirin

One way to fix this is to completely break the apprenticeship model of higher academia and professional careers. For Law, Medicine, and any other field requiring significant time in the classroom, ensure that accreditation is state administered (or outsourced test like the SAT) with no requirement of time spend in the classroom. This breaks and limits the prestige factor conferred by institution and reduce their overall influence. The way software engineers are hired, while flawed, remains one of the most meritocratic ways of hiring and distributing funding.