True, there are lots of professionals with only an undergrad degree. But how many of them required a specific undergrad degree to do that job? To advance in bus

True, there are lots of professionals with only an undergrad degree. But how many of them required a specific undergrad degree to do that job? To advance in business anymore, it requires an MBA of some kind. How you get it is flexible (right out of undergrad, part-time while working, etc). These days, requiring a bachelor's degree is the equivalent to requiring a high school diploma from a few years ago. Unfortunately, that means that if you want a higher level job, having just a bachelors isn't enough anymore. >But the idea that people should be going to into ridiculous, crushing debt to get a purely liberal arts degree, while completely ignoring their employability/financial reality, is hogwash. No one is saying that people should go into crushing debt for a liberal arts degree. Perhaps people should go to a different school, or work during school. But to assume that you can only pay off their school debts with an engineering degree is silly.