A lot of people argue that the college curriculum doesn’t help them to find a job. Guess what? It is not designed to find a job -and probably never will. This is what everyone says: what you study in school will not be used in college, what you study in college will not be used in jobs.

College is designed for you to study further. The school will prepare you for graduation, Graduation will prepare you for Post Graduation,  Post Graduation will prepare you for Ph.D., Ph.D. will prepare you for teaching. Hence, academics is a pyramid scheme. But academics is the best pyramid scheme because it helps to feed curious minds and is focused on enhancing research skills rather than making money. And everyone must agree that the research potential of a country matters a lot. It is the researchers and engineers who are driving the world while everyone is trying to keep up with them.

What's the use of college other than academics?

• Good colleges in India provide you with good placements -which gives you a good start. Hence, college helps you a great deal to start big. But, mind it that to move further up the ladder you need to continuously work hard after getting placed.
• College gives you an environment of curious, ambitious, and young minds like yours to learn from. During your school whenever you thought that you are too smart for people around you, that feeling gets lost in college. If it doesn't get lost in college then you should be in a better college :)

What should people do who are not interested in research, and want to pursue jobs?

1. Get a high paying job, earn some money and get some corporate experience and then decide if you want to study further or start a startup or continue working.
2. Build a team and get into startups(IITs have incubators that provide funding for startups started by the students)

How colleges can be better?

• There should be 2 types of institutes - research institutes and colleges. College must focus on learning skills and implementing ideas - while research institutes should focus on quality education and better research infrastructure. Students must be free to interchange them once after they made up their minds.
• Students of private colleges/state government colleges should be given entrance in IITs/IISER based on their previous research background so that people interested in research can switch to research institutes.
• Hence it is the private colleges/state government colleges that should change their curriculum in order to increase the skills of the masses.
• Professors of private colleges/state government colleges are usually people who did Ph.D. from these colleges themselves. Ph.D. holders know a lot but they can't explain that better. These colleges should have teachers from corporate sectors - who are involved in implementing things. Basically, the 6-months training before starting a job should be a part of the college curriculum.
• One business model that might survive here - training institutes(with good teachers that are from a corporate background and are involved in implementing things) that collaborate with these colleges.

At the end of graduation, every student must have opinions about the party whom they are going to vote for.