So, you--like so many others on FR--see college as job training, I gather.
Very close but not exactly.
Most college is (or should be) entirely aimed towards ones life work, either advancing the sciences, building something, advancing the welfare of all mankind etc. These goals can only be reached if someone is willing to pay you for the knowledge you have acquired.
Almost all "made up" degrees (womens studies etc) are useless to almost everyone. No one is going to pay for a woman's studies graduate to use their degree. This knowledge, if one really desires to have it, should be acquired in one's spare time. No reason to spend thousands and remove yourself from the productive part of society.
A graduate with a "gay" studies degree (for example) is simply a welfare case waiting to happen. He has wasted all that time and money on trivia.