I agree and disagree. If you take a historical perspective of the role of universities with respect to corporate employment a university education was just need

I agree and disagree. If you take a historical perspective of the role of universities with respect to corporate employment a university education was just needed to validate whether someone was of 'high calibre'. In the past anecdotally at least in the City of London 'well rounded' individuals were preferred for high finance i.e. you might be better off studying Classics at Oxbridge than pure math. Today this is probably less true as computerization and trading systems have come to the fore. However, I would be very surprised that in your case you didn't have all of those skills mentioned in place before going to university. Is it likely they got some enhancement? It certainly wouldn't do any harm studying anything in a good department. I don't see any tangible evidence that 'soft skills' are manufactured out of liberal studies and I find it a baffling conclusion that there even would be an automatic superiority of these skills versus a 'high calibre' person studying engineering.