Actually, at least now, it's more about coming out of college with a degree that gives you skills that are marketable.
Right now there are a lot of liberal arts majors waiting tables, and probably regretting their choice - and having to work off their college debt too.
My original point was that I was wondering what she was planning to do with a degree in Asian studies when she graduated. And it seemed like a waste, as you'd be paying the same money for a degree in engineering, nursing, accounting, 111cetc, and you'd have many more job possibilities.
So, she's lucky that she had other skills and maybe fortunate opportunities, that made her degree choice moot.

I think a college education has more to do with coming out with qualifications. If you can afford it (or if your parents can afford it) and you want the experience the University has to offer, why not? She did study abroad. Only she knows what she got out of that experience. Also, she never said she'd teach Asian studies, she just said she'd teach and possibly write text books. I'll have to find that interview.
Educating the mind
without educating the heart
is no education at all.

It kind of supports my statement. She spends $100K on her college education, and is then only qualified to teach others, in the courses that she just took? And the same for all the others in her major?
Seems like there'd be a glut of Asian Studies teachers looking for jobs.

Recently she said she would've become a teacher if she hadn't become an Actor.
Educating the mind
without educating the heart
is no education at all.

I went to an Ivy league and double majored in Biopsych/Neurobio and Asian Studies. It's a very interesting field with practical real world applications other than academia. I can expound if you'd like.

If you say so. I can't see spending $50-100k over 4 years, and come out with no real job skills.

She went to dartmouth Schools like that often graduate liberal arts majors (history, sociology etc) that go into business, law, etc.