Comment: There have been other articles on this subject, i.e. people are dissing Arts degrees in favor of others.  But that's simply not true.  For example, just Google UBC faculty enrollment statistics (I went to UBC) and the Arts faculty is the largest by far, about 25% larger than other faculties.  So I'm not sure why these articles seem to keep suggesting that people are not valuing the Arts degree.  Obviously many students still want it.  I got my Computer science degree MANY years ago and today I try to help others get into it.  And believe me, it is a lot harder to convince them to do comp sci than Arts or humanities related.  Incidentally, the USA still believes much in Liberal Arts.  Their degrees allow for much more room to take none core arts/humanities electives and I find American companies much more willing to hire Liberal Arts-type students wanting a more rounded individual (that's just my perception, maybe not reality). With co-op, yeah many University degrees are job factories!