Even Elite Colleges Have Become Trade Schools

Gideon Sobek graduated from Lehigh University in the spring with a bachelor’s degree in economics. He arrived at college wanting to major in architecture, but he let go of that pretty quickly because he thought it was too much of a long shot as a career.

Sobek was admitted to a highly coveted global business and public policy honors program as a junior. He got a grant that covered most of the cost of college, but still graduated with around $20,000 in debt. Lehigh, which is in Pennsylvania, is a prestigious school, with a 26 percent acceptance rate.

Listening to Sobek talk about his........

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