This comes up a lot and for good reason. The rise of proprietary schools, I think, contributed greatly to this. Real uni's likely have practiced field professionals, fuck I hope they do. Schools like Art Institute and ITT, back in the 90s, advertised and promoted their 'real world experienced' professors, I attended both at from age 17-21 and they were knowledgeable about their own fields, fast forward to Devry 2010's Advanced Software and stuff. professors simply reading from the textbook and they cant grade the code assignments. I'm sitting in a class that is supposed to use Discrete Mathematics and C++, but when I asked why EVERYONE got 100% on the code assignments, the teacher confesses that he does not know how to code. I wanted to scream. He sucked at the math parts too. I told him in my most sincere and sternface: "That is highly inappropriate"... See I been doing C/C++ since 92, and I'm sure most of my peers are the same, that c64 genx crowd. I was the only person who passed (out of the 8 remaining coder students) and I got a B, it really was an awful class, but Discrete Mathematics is super cool stuff. Since I was the only one left, they cancelled the program and I heard they couldnt find anyone to teach the machine learning classes for the amount they were paying. Obviously, I blame a handful of Education field entrepreneurs who thought this would work the same way the welding classes did. MIT even has free computer science courses, which aint too shabby, but I find overarchingly its mostly a beginner-intermediate experience and once you try to climb the peak, you find you're the only one there. Not bragging, this shit is depressing.