I feel like to some extent, this more so a societal change in how we view universities: before, they were playgrounds for wealthy people to network and learn th

I feel like to some extent, this more so a societal change in how we view universities: before, they were playgrounds for wealthy people to network and learn the shibboleth's required for high-society (i.e., a classical education), meanwhile we now view university as a gateway to middle-class jobs. I think this is especially present in Canadian schools, where schools have started to almost exclusively focus on pre-professional programs like business or pre-med majors, at the expense of humanities. There still is demand for learning about the humanities, just look at the Military Colleges in the States where a good portion of officer cadets major in humanities, versus the sciences. I would also be curious to see how many people have started to minor in the humanities and major in STEM. I personally know quite a few people who did that. It's just that the focus on career prospects and purpose of university has completely changed. I wonder how this will affect culture; so many of our great cultural works come from people who studied a classical education, but now even the humanities are so focused on job prospects that this is going away.