Vic this is what I've been preaching for the past decade. Universities are the worst. They dupe a lot of kids into thinking they can be/do anything. Honestly if you're not going to school to do a specialized trade like Welding, Engineering, Legal, Medicine, Chemistry, then you're pretty much SOL.
A lot of folks say I.T. but that's really hit and miss. You can get those certs on your own without a college degree. It's really not that complex or specialized, you just have to have the time to do them.
But yeah, the American University system is not the glorious, proud, and capable system it once was.