#2 is becoming decreasing true as more general education is piled on to both make up for the knowledge that students increasingly lack of abilities (as high sch

#2 is becoming decreasing true as more general education is piled on to both make up for the knowledge that students increasingly lack of abilities (as high schools are pressured to just pass them) as well as the perverse incentive for colleges to pack in these classes to keep them paying for more classes. This is compounded by the fact that these ill-prepared students wont as successful in a more rigorous program so departmental pressures within the college system have reduced the scope of undergrad classes by a staggering amount. These days, their major grants them surface-level, watered-down understanding, requiring the need to go into a masters or post-baccalaureate program for the privilege of learning anything useful.