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One can say that all university credits are relevant to any job but only in the most general sense. Certainly you wouldn't advocate 8 years of general education before getting into degree specific education so the amount is at the very least arbitrary.

Yeah you are probably right about ambition as a general filter too. But the point remains that universities take advantage of this. They know full-well that plenty of students are there to get a job and they can and do milk this.

Issuing degrees is not part of Universities being "about education". Degrees are an arbitrary milestone, that can be received after completing a nearly arbitrary set of classes, that in-turn have taught an arbitrary set of lessons. The fact that Universities have coalesced around issuing degrees of the same type without ensuring their curriculums match further makes the degrees aribitrary.