Colleges used to be much more affordable even though they covered liberal arts and engineering together.

Are all colleges unaffordable? Do all colleges require engineering students to take liberal arts? Maybe this isn't universal, maybe it's just that prestigious colleges all have strong liberal arts programs, either out of tradition or because it's required for being seen as prestigious.

Liberal arts courses arguably are still helpful for building general language and reasoning skills.

On the whole though, it does seem strange that I paid the same for a graduate level stats course and a freshman history course, even though the former taught me about five times as much.