Another perspective, anecdotal perhaps :
Over the life of a career, the 3/2 program may have additional benefits. My brother started with a denomination college, then finished his civil engineering degree at Michigan Tech. When starting out more he was brought into upper level meetings with clients much sooner than his peers because of having speech /communication classes – he could handle public speaking and convey ideas to non-engineers much better. After the recession hit Michigan so hard 2008-2010 he was able to get hired more quickly - in this instance as a consulting engineer for an insurance company because he could actually write. Over the long haul, those liberal arts core classes were of great benefit to him.