[jgfoot]

A revealing part of the article comes when Yale Prof. Hicks says that, rather than develop skills with consulting firms, "There are a half-dozen more life-affirming ways you can acquire those same skills, including taking a class at night at a junior college while you do something more interesting."

This is not a good advertisement for Yale. In addition to costing a lot of money, Yale costs four years of lifetime. Yet, after all that, students are left in a position where if they want business skills, they have to hold down a job and go to night school at a junior college?

[crazygringo]

Yale is, by design, a non-professional school (for undergraduates). Its philosophy is that it focuses entirely on a liberal arts education to make you a better, more-informed, deeper human being. (In fact, it won't even calculate your GPA for you.)

Because of this, it does not have business classes. You cannot major in communications or public relations. It doesn't have an official pre-med program. The idea is, you've got the rest of your life to do all that.

Whether you think this is a smart philosophy, of course, depends on your point of view.

And of course, after you graduate from undergrad, then you can try Yale's graduate programs, among which you'll find some of the top professional schools in the country.