With universities going mass market, their image as bastions of the elite has been destroyed. Undergraduate education emphasizes general studies and basic training, and to be truly accomplished academically or professionally one must now ascend to graduate school. University curricula have consequently become more lively and varied.
大學大眾化，原本高人一等的菁英形象幻滅，學士教育強調通識與基本訓練，真正的專業或學術成就則已往上延伸到研究所，大學課程因此傾向活潑多元。