This is actually a quite good point—but I’d stress that it depends on the institution. At the college I currently work at, the finance students…well, not the best academic reputation. At other schools, they’re the cream of the crop. At some schools, it’s the English majors that are the spectacularly brilliant ones, and at other schools it’s the biologists, and so on.
I mean, hey, there’s even a couple schools that produce well-regarded leisure studies graduates. 