Of course right wingers despise higher education. It clashes with their personality. Right Wing Authoritarians are motivated by their fear. They follow any authority that promises to quell that fear, protect them, etc. The dispassionate inquiry of higher education is antithetical to the right winger’s impassioned cocoon of emotional subservience to authority. That's why they hate science as well. Therefore higher education is a boondoggle and indoctrination of some sort. It’s hard to tell really bc the right winger uses language loosely and thinks so sloppily.
Don't hide behind real degrees and majors. Let's face it graduating with a bullshit lib arts major does not make you any more educated/wiser/open minded than someone who didn't go to college.