I had one during my undergraduate years: four people had to work together as a team to build a full web service from scratch and present it at the end of the semester. The lectures from the professor were mostly about general software engineering practice (version control, testing, etc.) and OOP / design patterns - but apart from that the real deal was that you had to learn the entire frontend / backend web stack (which the TAs covered instead, at breaknecking speed). Obviously it was known to be the most brutal and hardcore course in the entire CS department, but you got decent grades given that you actually survived the whole thing, and it's often said to be one of the most memorable ones (I've heard an anecdote that the single course was more helpful than interning at Google for half a year)

universities aren't job centers either. They don't supply you with food and shelter, you pay them money and they give you the education you want. Which can mean making a lot of money if you happen to pick something private businesses value but it can also mean reading Ulysses or The Old Testament or number theory all day.

Higher education is entirely up to you, it's not a company pre-training. If you want that there are literal vocational programs that are not computer science.

Well if you don’t have a job, the places worth working for is the one that will pay you in exchange for your labor so you aren’t homeless, hungry and naked.

A junior developer can’t say “you know what I don’t want to work for your company because you don’t value cornerstone principals. I would rather sleep on the street”

Considering how many are struggling to find a job, evidently it’s the universities that need to change.