[gregjor]

Your question, if sincere, communicates some misunderstandings of personal growth and the place of university degrees in that process.

I think which degree program one chooses has little to do with the criteria you listed. "Personal growth," "wisdom," "well-balanced," "clear thinking," "a good life" all describe vague and subjective states or measures. And those states change according to one's situation and over time -- "wisdom" and "good life" don't describe objective static features, only how one subjectively feels at the moment. Choices you make at typical college age -- 18 to 25 -- will affect the rest of your life but in ways you can't predict, and you can't ever know you made the "best" choices. And what makes you happy at 20 years old may not seem like a good decision at 40 years old.

The purpose of a university degree program mainly comes down to profit for the institution, with any education transmitted almost incidental. You have to get an "education" yourself. A school or university can, at best, give you access to resources you otherwise wouldn't have access to, and a credential that intends to prove participation and accomplishment according to a defined curriculum, relative to your classmates. It may also communicate wealthy parents or decades of loan payments.

[retrocryptid]

Lol. You went to MIT, didn't you?

[gregjor]

No, not even close, but thanks for the flattering comment.