" .. A Liberal Arts program used to be one of the hardest to enter and finish because the everyone was expected to study philosophy, languages, history, AND science and math. .."
My experience - never was and certainly is not now. The food chain of university graduation:
- The top grade 13s (my era) entered into the professional degree courses (STEM, law, medicine ...)
- If you failed there ( 50% did ) they went into the general sciences.
- After flunking these you got a BA in "arts" ...
The result may be obvious in our political establishment and media.