1/3 of the requireds are worthless!-----Students could graduate faster without curriculum ‘bloat,’ expert says. - Jared Gould

Students haven’t been completing college in four years—that’s a bad thing...

• That elsewhere is making cuts to the bloated core curriculum. 
• Not all of it, of course—sadly, colleges still have to remediate what K–12 fails to teach—but much of the excess could and should be cut.

Few issues in higher-ed get less attention than the growing time it takes students to earn a degree. 

The average time to complete a bachelor’s degree in the U.S. is now five to six years. 

That’s insane...

One reason for the delay? 

Degree requirements are bloated. 

• A standard bachelor’s degree requires about 120 credit hours, but at least 25 percent of those are unrelated to the degree itself, and probably 10 percent are completely useless...