University is too expensive, bloating administrative budgets and "prestige" architecture combined with professional sports teams have led everyone astray from the two goals: advancing the forefront of human knowledge and preparing young people with the education to be free in their world.

Instead we're going to very expensive camp where most of the people flaunt laws for fun (there's no reason alcohol should be illegal for undergrads) and then grind to pass tests while not actually learning all that much OR becoming all that prepared for the world after university.

Particularly with how poorly academics are paid, it would be pretty damn easy to build a better university.

It's not at all surprising people are leaving, university degrees are becoming minimum quarter million dollar participation trophies.

> It's not at all surprising people are leaving, university degrees are becoming minimum quarter million dollar participation trophies.

The vast majority of college degrees are nowhere near that. Average in-state tuition in the US is something like $9,000.

Now, some people want a trophy from Stanford, but that's a separate topic.