I don't know if they're making a mistake. I wouldn't judge them on that, because it's the field they know.
When I was in business school, they were pushing us to accounting, because being a comptable agréé—I don't know the expression in English—was a big thing at the time. Suddenly it became something else, and I did marketing. I didn't follow their guidance and it served me well. At the same time, it's because a lot of the people teaching don't know our business. They know general computer programming for playing or elements like that.
It's important that they be exposed to that business. I want to say that a good programmer will have a job for life, and a bad programmer probably not, because in our business talent is king. If you have no talent, you won't work. You can try....