Posted on 11/12/2022 5:37:14 AM PST by FarCenter
Even with college application season in full swing, many families are questioning whether a four-year degree is still worth it.
Some experts say the value of a bachelor’s degree is fading and more emphasis should be directed toward career training. A growing number of companies, including many in tech, are also dropping degree requirements for many middle-skill and even higher-skill roles.
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Still, 44% of all job seekers with college degrees regret their field of study.
Journalism, sociology, communications and education all topped the list of most-regretted college majors, according to ZipRecruiter’s survey of more than 1,500 college graduates who were looking for a job.
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Of graduates who regretted their major, most said that, if they could go back, they would now choose computer science or business administration instead.
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Too bad, so sad. Now pay back those loans.
How about the “studies” majors. Women/black/gay studies, probably the most useless major in any college.
The colossal presumptive mistake is is to buy into the narrative that a college degree of any sort will guarantee financial security. That somehow dollars and cents equate to personal fulfillment. I remember some years ago reading that the highest rate of suicide amongst professionals was amongst accountants and dentists of all things. On the other hand some majors don’t have any practical application in our technocratic capitalistic world. I have a master’s degree in philosophy and about the only thing that’s good for is rolling up to see the front of the unemployment line. Hence my sales career. But counseling my children especially my 13 year old son, I’m trying to warn him off from buying into the lie that a college degree is the be all end all. A nice trade like HVAC the standard chain of command in the corporate world. Puts bread on the table and allows one to be his own boss. Owner knows that most plumbers and electricians make more money than most college grads. The other elephant in the room is that our education system has been comprehensively hijacked by the leftists and they are nothing but breeding grounds for future communists. Just look at the generation z voting patterns.
Even the more quantitative side of business administration can get complicated.
Maybe they should consider Gender Studies or Indigenous Arts & Sciences.
The History of African Religions with a specialty in Yoruba might be interesting.
Of the people I’ve known and asked, it was mostly engineers who were working in the field they studied in college. Most of the others had jobs unrelated to their studied field. Why? I suspect it was mostly due to there not really being lots of remunerative jobs in things like journalism or “art.” I knew a very successful production manager, later director, who started life as a history teacher. He told me, approximatly, “If you want to have a family and pursue the American dream you need a job with more open-ended potential. I could tell you how much money I’d be making as a teacher in ten years or twenty and it was pitiful. I don’t know what I was thinking when I chose history.”
African studies. ROTFL! Not everybody in Africa was really a King or Queen. That’s only in those wacky Disney Movies for Dummies.
There’s nothing stopping them from going back and getting a degree in any of these sensible courses.
And it should be less expensive if they choose an online course- something that they could do part-time.
Of graduates who regretted their major, most said that, if they could go back, they would now choose computer science or business administration instead.
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The double with computer science is computers operate at a purely logical level. They don’t care what you look like, or your background, or your race. You might get away with B.S. as an IT manager, but at the code level, you can’t B.S. a computer.
Most of those degrees (as well as law, psychology, and art) are brain-busting bitches...
Things like learning to read things like:
- See the dog...
- See the brown dog...
- See the brown dog run...
In about 12-to-16 years, once this is mastered, learning to count without taking your shoes off is the next hurdle...
Finally, at the Ph.D. level, there is this question (With a 70% failure rate):
- If you buy a pack of gum for a nickel and give the clerk a quarter, how much change does the clerk hand you back?
Not sure that even studying logic would have done them any good?
Basket Weaving & Logic 101?
I’d like to see a full list and know how they dealt with what didn’t appear. There are a boatload of potential majors that aren’t listed, and I find it hard to believe that they all fell between 52% would not do them again and 58% would.
Some are obscure enough that if you are only sampling 1500 people, sample size is going to pose a problem. If there are usually 3-5 history majors in a group of 1500, the statistical noise is going to be unbearable. (I majored in Economics, which isn’t listed, though it might be lumped in either with Finance or Market management/Research, which about offset eachother-—if I had to do it all over again, I might do that, or decide to screw up my life in a different way. Actually, it has been useful in many ways).
Nobody annoys me more than people with studies degrees who think there are edumacated and stuff
It’s called being an adult and they didn’t do so well. Time for a life lesson.
Whatever those digital numbers tell me to give back?
I am pretty sure this is a percentage among all graduates that are seeking jobs.
I would like to see some numbers for percentage of graduates with that particular degree compared to the total number of people with that same degree. I don’t think that many people graduate with a gender studies degree but I expect that most of them regret their choice.
I hope that made sense.
I experienced this regret back in the 80s with my “communication arts” degree. By the end of my third semester, I realized courses like Communication Theory and Rhetorical Criticism were not training me for any kind of real job. I switched to TV production where I was actually trained for employment in the real world and which led to a job at a local TV station.
Wear, where . . .
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