This is stupid, liberal arts major do get jobs that pay well too. Teachers are often liberal arts major and they are paid well.
science/math/physics/chemistry. If you are not studying those subjects you are not learning anything employable. All the rest is a jobs/welfare program for pseudo teachers.
I think people who believe that the purpose of higher education is a job shouldn't go. That doesn't mean that is should be a main goal, but I witness stupidity and ignorance on a daily basis and right here by people who haven't a clue outside what they read on the internet or that's not job related. They never learned how to think, they regurgitate.
:biggrin: You're always good for a laugh.
It should be noted that if everyone majored in health care, engineering, computers, business, and other "useful" fields that we would simply end up having an even larger oversupply of college graduates in those fields.
For example, if X-Million college students currently major in the liberal arts fields and decided to major in a "useful" field instead, the end result would be that we would still end up having X-Million unemployed and underemployed-involuntarily-out-of-field college graduates. The number of available jobs at currently-prevailing wage rates would not magically increase by X-Million. Instead you'd just end up with an additonal X-Million unemployed/underemployed graduates who have degrees in "useful fields".
The problem is not merely that too many people are majoring in the liberal arts, but that our nation is investing far too many resources in excess and unneeded college education to begin with. 50% or more of the colleges should probably be closed.
How is this at all relevant to the decision an individual should make on his career? It's like me saying I won't vote because one vote doesn't matter to which the response is if everybody did that democracy wouldn't work. Well, yeah, but not everybody is doing it. Should we aspire to working at mcdonalds because if we didn't and nobody else did there would be no more big macs? There are always lazy people looking to breeze through college and so there is not a likely chance of us being short on people with these degrees.It should be noted that if everyone majored in health care, engineering, computers, business, and other "useful" fields that we would simply end up having an even larger oversupply of college graduates in those fields.
Meaningless fringe statistics. 100% of the founders of the top two tech companies MS and appl didn't have degrees, is that what you would tell your son thinking about college? Better numbers within:The 40% of fortune 500 CEO's have liberal arts degrees.
Retards, but this is also their parents' fault, but this is why so many kids are getting anthropology degrees:The biggest regret was choice of major, with more than a third (37 percent) saying they wish they had chosen differently.
only about two in five grads (39 percent) said they had thought about job opportunities when they decided what to major in.
science/math/physics/chemistry. If you are not studying those subjects you are not learning anything employable. All the rest is a jobs/welfare program for pseudo teachers.
The short-sighted assumption of this thread is that the only consideration involved in deciding whether to go to college is whether it makes economic sense.
Becoming an educated person is its own reward.
If you are interested in liberal arts subjects, buy some books and indulge those interests that way. It's way less expensive than a degree that won't get you a good job. It's not like you're really gaining anything from professors at liberal arts universities that focus 90% of their effort on their own research and 10% of their effort on teaching, or the snotty teacher assistants that have very little to no understanding of the subject, yet have to pick up all of the slack for the professor.
How is this at all relevant to the decision an individual should make on his career? It's like me saying I won't vote because one vote doesn't matter to which the response is if everybody did that democracy wouldn't work. Well, yeah, but not everybody is doing it.
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/regrets-about-college/
Retards, but this is also their parents' fault, but this is why so many kids are getting anthropology degrees:
From: The college students you don't know
"A study by the Harvard Graduate School of Education estimated that only a third of new jobs created between 2008 and 2018 will require a bachelor's or higher degree."
Companies will seek 22 million new postsecondary degree-holders, but just 19 million or so will have earned an associate’s degree or higher by then, according to the report
Liberal arts majors tend to gravitate towards jobs like teaching, which still pay better than jobs that require no degrees. The only exception would be waiter/waitress who tend to make as much as many college graduates due to tips.
It doesn't matter if it just pays more than a job with no degree. Does it pay more than a job with no degree AFTER you pay back the loan + interest. Then there is the "time value" thing.
I doubt you will find many people with $50,000 in student loans working at starbucks who agree with you.
The short-sighted assumption of this thread is that the only consideration involved in deciding whether to go to college is whether it makes economic sense.
Becoming an educated person is its own reward.
How is this at all relevant to the decision an individual should make on his career? It's like me saying I won't vote because one vote doesn't matter to which the response is if everybody did that democracy wouldn't work. Well, yeah, but not everybody is doing it. Should we aspire to working at mcdonalds because if we didn't and nobody else did there would be no more big macs? There are always lazy people looking to breeze through college and so there is not a likely chance of us being short on people with these degrees.Meaningless fringe statistics. 100% of the founders of the top two tech companies MS and appl didn't have degrees, is that what you would tell your son thinking about college? Better numbers within:
http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/degrees.asp
Again, people need to drop this insane notion that an arts degree somehow benefits the student in major ways that a real degree wouldn't. One can learn these intangible skills while also getting a degree that doesn't look like a comedy routine on their resume; they are not mutually exclusive conditions.
science/math/physics/chemistry. If you are not studying those subjects you are not learning anything employable. All the rest is a jobs/welfare program for pseudo teachers.