Based on my personal experience having obtained a degree and not following my passion for IT has not made me get the job I dreamed for so I took my attention to getting many international IT certifications like CCNA and others in order to boost my credentials,I own more than 10 of them now and I have quite some years of experience now so I fully agree with what this girl want to do and if she was my daughter I would not at all force her to go into the university as I know what it means to go there and not get what you want or not to feel fulfilled,following your passion like I did is something I strongly recommend to anyone including to this girl.
More importantly you got your degree first, right? That's what the parents trying to do or atleast most of them who don't have much to left their kids as inheritance wanted to ensure their survival here with whatever the knowledge they have.
Sure things changed a lot and most of us don't even work related to the sector we got our degree but there's something we can learn from it and that will definitely be helpful to pursue our passion too.
Yes that is reality most parents don't have much ideas of what they want their children to go into but felt the pain of not meeting up their mate do to financial instability of their own parents but want their own children to bridge that gap by persuading them to go through any course if study.
They world has move away of only relying on what one study even if you don't practice your field of study the exposure alone usher you better opportunity to explore than those who where not opportune to go through the four wall of education.
The saying that no knowledge is waste is actually a reality as I have see many that have left their profession to something else practicing profession is not a yardstick or mandatory all one need is to explore and adapt not is waste .