Many students at state universities work to support their non student life style and continue to party away. Thus class attendance is less than 50% in most classes, at least in the university that I work in.
Employers are catching on. There are better screening statistics than admission to schools such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc at least in the soft fields. The students in the soft fields, especially in the so called “elite” universities are not stressed to their limits, unlike the intercollegiate athletes.
Our top graduates make better employees than the mid level grads of the “elites” since the grads from those PC shops do not know what they do not know and are soft.