> They can’t possibly know better. This seems to be kicking the can down the road a little. College applicants and students absolutely should bear some respons

> They can’t possibly know better. This seems to be kicking the can down the road a little. College applicants and students absolutely should bear some responsibility in making sure that their programs, degrees, and desired careers are actually feasible and practical in the long-term. Where you're spot-on, though, is that they don't bear all the responsibility. The big problem, it seems, is that there's no safety-valve for those students who didn't (whether through their own fault or not) get the memo about programs being worthless. In those cases, making other stakeholders (schools, the state) have some skin in the game seems like it'd make the problem solve itself. Like you said, if the students are the only ones incentivized to have universities give a good education, we're going to have a bad time.