>>82876195 (OP)
Basically the only rigorous educations in America today are stem educations at top schools. Everything else is a mockery of high education. Even at highly-ranked schools, your average English or history class will have a professor uninterested in teaching stand up and give a half-assed lecture straight from the textbook and then assign a "quiz" to be taken on the student's own time, fully online without any safeguards against cheating. Most of the work is produced and evaluated by ChatGPT. The university system has been completely RAPED by over-enrollment, immigration, declining standards, DEI, administrative bloat, and a thousand other things. Even worse, a degree is simultaneously necessary to break into white collar work and also completely useless (unless you went to a top school) at indicating your knowledge in a subject area. The university system in this country needs to be completely nuked.
>>82876231
It already is a laughing stock. Outside stem students from top 50ish universities, the average American college graduate learns nothing. If you were to have, say, a random philosophy student from a top liberal arts college in the U.S. and a philosophy student from a random college in Latam/Europe debate it would be a complete slaughter.