I'm not confusing the ability to communicate ones professional skills with having a communications degree. Content still beats the wrapping, but an inability to communicate is not good. A PhD in a coma or an extreme introvert does not a great corporate professional make. The extreme introvert might make a good boffin however and there is more introverts in IT then other parts of our business.

In Aus we start off with our majors, we don't do a general year or two. It is straight in. That is why you can be a graduate at 20/21 years old with a B.Sc and that is the norm. Engineering degrees take 4 years to complete after finishing high school.