I've studied (and taught undergraduates) in Britain, and their three year degrees are tightly focused on students' courses of study. They don't (by and large) g

I've studied (and taught undergraduates) in Britain, and their three year degrees are tightly focused on students' courses of study. They don't (by and large) go in for the General Education courses that take up so much of US college students' time. The advantage is that their university degree programmes go into much more depth, in a much shorter time. On the other hand, university-bound students there do an extra year of (very academically-focused) secondary school, so they arrive more prepared for tertiary education than US students (by and large) are. I prefer the British system, too, but getting to it in the US would require changing more than just US colleges' time-tables or courses of study.