For many years I recruited both Undergraduate students and MBA students from America`s most respected colleges .
About half of the schools I visited year after year and again still very respected colleges were turning out young men and women who were completely " Institutionally Programmed ". Further they lacked any basic background for the type of employment they were seeking .
Frankly their education was so lacking that their very expensive tuition was a complete waste .

Fortunately there were still about 50% of the colleges that were turning out well educated students with solid foundational skills . However these tended to be Universities which specialized in a " Quantitative " education such as engineering , math etc . Examples would be Carnegie Mellon and The University of Chicago , Northwestern and The University of Pennsylvania .