Regardless of whether it is "worth it" financially, I'm not even sure it is morally permissible.
When I went to college, the course content for the general education credit requirements (i.e., liberal arts taught by atheistic Jew professors 50% of the time) was often blasphemous and heretical, and in testing, you would often be required to reaffirm such.
For example, I recall in a class called "Western Civilization Until 1648" (or some such title), the ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ freemasonic professor glorified firstly the Lutheran revolt ("He said what people had been thinking for centuries!"), then the French Revolution. We were required to read Candide by Francis-Mary Arouet.
It was not possible to critique or challenge the professor's presentation.
Your grade was dependent upon the degree to which you could faithfully regurgitate the sophistries you had been spoon fed.
Deviations from the received view "demonstrated" a failure to grasp course material.
Had I been a faithful Catholic in those days, I never could have gotten the grades that I did.
Today I would flunk those courses, because I would lambast what those professors were teaching.
But had I been a faithful Catholic in those days, my faith would certainly have been challenged on a daily basis.
I'm not sure we are allowed to knowingly place our faith in that kind of danger, and I am also not confident an 18 year-old Catholic who will be wowed by his "incredibly intelligent" professors, will be able to withstand their sophistries. He simply won't have had the time to study his faith (or history) enough by that age.
People often say to me, "Well, what if I want to become a lawyer?"
My response is always, "What is more important to you: Maintaining your faith, or becomming a lawyer?"
To which they always respond: "Are you trying to tell me God doesn't want any Catholic lawyers, or doctors, etc?"
To which I always respond: "God may give some the grace to withstand/resist their indoctrination, yes, and if your priest agrees that it is your calling to become a lawyer, well, that's between him, you, and God. But if you are doing this of your own accord (which will be the case in 90% of the cases: Whoever asks their priest about their vocations, except in the case of religious or priestly vocations? They all think that if they want to be something else, that is their own business. WRONG!), you are likely acting according to your own will against the will of God, who would not want to plunge you into a dangerous environment woefully underprepared. Besides, God can always convert the doctors and lawyers he needs."
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