If your only purpose in getting a degree is to have a piece of paper to hang on your wall, and/or to be able to put down on a job application that you've graduated from college, then yes, you are right; there is little difference between getting a BYU degree and an USU degree. However, if your goal is to get a degree that actually means something, that requires more than padding your G.E. requirements with a few easy classes, then there is a marked difference between the degrees from the two schools.

• The engineering graduate asks, "How did they build that building?"
• The medical graduate asks, "How did they care for the workers building that building?"
• The physics graduate asks, "How did they work out the forces on that building?"
• The chemistry graduate asks, "What made up the materials in that building?"
• The law graduate asks, "How did they get the permits to build that building?"
• The liberal arts graduate asks, "Do you want fries with that?"