Suspicions confirmed: I learned nothing in college

"America's Most Overrated Product: the Bachelor's Degree"

Some highlights:

• "50 percent of college seniors scored below "proficient" levels on a test that required them to do such basic tasks as understand the arguments of newspaper editorials or compare credit-card offers."
• "Almost 20 percent of seniors had only basic quantitative skills."
• "The percentage of college graduates deemed proficient in prose literacy has actually declined from 40 to 31 percent in the past decade."

So not only will my B.A. become more and more worthless as the market becomes more saturated with college graduates, it is further devalued by the fact that employers realize that a degree pretty much means nothing about a person's skill level.

And nicely put by the author:

Colleges are quick to argue that a college education is more about enlightenment than employment... 44.6 percent [of college freshmen] said they were not satisfied with the quality of instruction they received. Imagine if that many people were dissatisfied with a brand of car: It would quickly go off the market. Colleges should be held to a much higher standard, as a higher education costs so much more, requires years of time, and has so much potential impact on your life.

At least I'll be able to woo employers with my legal education. Oh wait, I won't learn anything there either.