I agree with the sentiment but I feel like this is hard to do in practice. How many schools are able to teach students skills necessary for their job? Not many and even after that a lot of students go into a field that isn’t their major. You can force students to do internships for practical experience (I think some departments do this), but there are going to be subpar students who kind of dunder through it. The only school I know that does teach very applied stuff is UWaterloo which is one of a kind and very selective

I also feel like this is also very major dependent and not a policy UCSD as a whole can do. In web development in computer science what is applied changes a lot so learning what you’d use in a job will be obsolete by the time you graduate. So people tend to learn the theory of how something works and learn the exact specifics on the job (and if you didn’t learn the theory in school then it would be very hard to learn by yourself).

How much does UCSD emphasize research? I think it’s optional for most majors? If you kill research then you kill funding and less people want to come to UCSD since there is no active research and departments will bleed out. This is probably department specific but I’m not sure much research is pushed on undergrads and was under the impression that most don’t even do research so deemphasizing it would just lower the amount of undergrads that actually do it