How useful will a university degree be?

Not very outside of the sciences or engineering unless you intend to stay only in acedemia. A degree gives you just enough to get in the door. Many in HR have ridiculous degrees and screen applicants out who haven't given a ton of money to a college or University. Reality shows that most college graduates do not have enough knowledge to do the job. Most employers have to retrain the graduate almost from the start. In many cases I have seen in the last few years, the graduate feels they have no need to learn and they should have benefits someone takes years to earn. College degrees have less meaning today and many college students should have gone to a vocational school but the stigma has been placed into our social consciousness as the ideal. We need to as a society bring back the status of vocational training and rethink our society to survive. The old ways were better in this area.