A mix is definitely an necessity, but I think the courses cater more towards different end goals. In my opinion those practical courses teach you skills that will be more beneficial if you want to go into industry and the academic courses teach you more about things that would help when doing research in a lab. Lets compare two classes, this one and a academics based one, lets say an anatomy class. If I want to go into industry and create a device to help treat pain it is going to be far more useful to me to know the regulations I will have to work around for the device than to know the exact parts of the body. But if I want to do research to try and understand what exactly is the cause of the pain then then an anatomy class will help me understand the function of the body so I can conduct the research.

So I ask you guys, should there be identifiers to show which classes are academic or practical for people who want to go into industry versus academia?