dittos bateman, they're nearly essential these days to get an airline job, but they teach you nothing about flying. I've posted this before, but my understanding, in the US anyway, is that airlines rankings in the Fortune500 list is corelated to the number of personnel with bach/mast/phd's. That's the conspiracy theory anyway.
I just think it is unfortunate to disadvantage those who chose another post-secondary school path, all for the sake of ...well whatever it is.