@stradmom, you implied that taking these other classes are what constitute “a real education,” and that OP’s desires to not have gen ed requirements is better suited for a trade school. I, at the encouragement of Brown University, used the same approach as the OP (albeit with different opinions about different topics than his) in pursuing my undergraduate studies. Therefore you’re implying that my (and Brown’s) philosophy about curriculum design does not lead to “a real education,” and therefore what I did at Brown was not “a real education.”