“(c) If the studies do not cause you to learn Apikursus or to befriend Goyim, and you learn secular studies in order to know a skill to make a living, it is permitted, and it is a Mitzvah.”
I got a degree from a secular college and the above quote is an accurate description of my experience.
Meno, you weren’t required to take any mandatory or prerequisite courses that had little or nothing to do with the trade you were seeking to enter? No courses in evolution or certain sciences or political courses that teach or espouse apikorsus?