Ovaries in your post I thought you said you did a drama or theatre degree, unless I misread - I didn't realise it was in acting, musical theatre or dance.
I think it's a unique course title which would out me, but it's somewhere in between 
we had one theory module a year and then four or five practical.
Is yours a recent experience, Ovaries? Because what dd is hearing, more and more, is that her friends who went down the uni drama route are finding it very difficult to get jobs and agents compared to those who went to drama school.
I graduated in 2015. I don't doubt it's a lot harder to get jobs and agents (I've done a complete about-face career wise and write theatre strictly as a hobby on the side now rather than wanting it to be my career), I said in a post above that the industry contacts, experience and showcase opportunities offered to drama school students are on a totally different level to universities. I can only offer my experience, several of my peers (small cohorts because it's a practical/vocational course) now have agents and acting credits under their belts. Several others don't and are still struggling; some are going down the teaching/facilitating route and some of us are changing career entirely.
I'm not trying to compare the two, literally all I'm saying is that there's a middle ground between "jazz hands and showcases" and "studying Brechtian theory". I have the degree certificate to prove it 