Not a shock. Workplace skills and specific training will be worth more than run of the mill, fluffy liberal arts degrees that they hand out like toilet paper. You can tell me that some people make it with those degrees but for the vast majority(something like 60% go into jobs that never needed a degree), they're wasting their time and money. A STEM can give you a higher chance of employment with higher salaries but again, not everyone succeeds. I nearly ended up going to uni this year to do Biochem. I weighed up my options and realised it was a total waste. My max salary would be barely around £40K if I was in research(probably much less in reality) and jobs in that field are few. So I kicked the degree idea to the curve and started a sponsored cadetship in the merchant navy instead. I'm telling ya, people who get these types of things are hitting a gold mine. Other apprenticeship style schemes(airliners for example) can be very lucrative alongside numerous other schemes in areas like computer science, banking and accounting. And consider this, I was 100% Pro-University not so long ago but then I had my eyes opened. A university degree does not guarantee a job(unless you're going for nursing, medicine, vet science or engineering). Unless you fall into one of those degrees, dont waste your time with it. You should only be going to university to do a degree that is beneficial to your employment prospects in a specific field, not for friend making/independence/experience etc.