Most regretted majors and least regretted majors

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Anonymous wrote:While education degree is on the list, the worst offendor IMO is a comms degree. At least with an education degree you can go into teaching, even as a lot of teachers want to leave the profession.

A comms degree is a fluff degree like Art History major. A comms degree is probably the easiest degree, and it's what you major in when you are not very smart and don't want to work hard in college.

One can do far more with a communication degree than an education degree.

You sound dumb.

We need more teachers, not more youtubers or influencers. Comms degree is a joke degree. You might as well go to community college or a trade school.

You seem to be really angry and hurt and have some personal vendetta against communication majors! LOL

Did someone with a communication degree personally hurt you?

we need more teachers and less youtubers/influencers. IMO, these people make the world worse.

[Anonymous]

Just a suggestion to the parents posting about their career success and their undergraduate major. Assuming your eldest child is a senior in high school now, that child may be 17 years old. It will be five years from now when this child will get undergraduate degree and start the first full-time job. Even if the parent stopped with undergraduate degree and got married and had the first child soon after that, here will be 23 to 25 years gap between when the parent got the first job and when the child would get the first job. Times are changing fast and economic realities we face are changing faster. You can’t possibly expect what was good for you to be good for your child. I subject peer into the future, make informed guesses and help your children prepare themselves to face their future and be successful!

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^^^ I suggest

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While education degree is on the list, the worst offendor IMO is a comms degree. At least with an education degree you can go into teaching, even as a lot of teachers want to leave the profession.

A comms degree is a fluff degree like Art History major. A comms degree is probably the easiest degree, and it's what you major in when you are not very smart and don't want to work hard in college.

One can do far more with a communication degree than an education degree.

You sound dumb.

We need more teachers, not more youtubers or influencers. Comms degree is a joke degree. You might as well go to community college or a trade school.

You seem to be really angry and hurt and have some personal vendetta against communication majors! LOL

Did someone with a communication degree personally hurt you?

we need more teachers and less youtubers/influencers. IMO, these people make the world worse.

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Vapid doesn't even begin to describe it.

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When I see these lists and posts it makes me realize that most people have very limited imaginations. Many people do not work in their degree field, so why is one’s major so important? Also, when you graduate from college, you are 22 and have lots of life ahead of you. Who cares about your first job? If you have any intelligence at all, you would have to be bonkers to believe that your life is ruined because you pursued an English degree and now are 22. Even people who pursue more practical degrees like economics, get MBAs and law degrees after undergraduate school. I think an English major could do the same.

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Anonymous wrote:When I see these lists and posts it makes me realize that most people have very limited imaginations. Many people do not work in their degree field, so why is one’s major so important? Also, when you graduate from college, you are 22 and have lots of life ahead of you. Who cares about your first job? If you have any intelligence at all, you would have to be bonkers to believe that your life is ruined because you pursued an English degree and now are 22. Even people who pursue more practical degrees like economics, get MBAs and law degrees after undergraduate school. I think an English major could do the same.

presumably, the people who were polled were the ones who regretted their choice in majors.

Sure, anyone can regret their major, even in STEM fields, but based on the poll, the top regrets are what is on the list.

As with anything YMMV

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While education degree is on the list, the worst offendor IMO is a comms degree. At least with an education degree you can go into teaching, even as a lot of teachers want to leave the profession.

A comms degree is a fluff degree like Art History major. A comms degree is probably the easiest degree, and it's what you major in when you are not very smart and don't want to work hard in college.

One can do far more with a communication degree than an education degree.

You sound dumb.

We need more teachers, not more youtubers or influencers. Comms degree is a joke degree. You might as well go to community college or a trade school.

You seem to be really angry and hurt and have some personal vendetta against communication majors! LOL

Did someone with a communication degree personally hurt you?

we need more teachers and less youtubers/influencers. IMO, these people make the world worse.

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Vapid doesn't even begin to describe it.

Olive Jade of the Varsity Blue scandal is an influencer and youtbuer and was a comms major.

I recall there was a thread on here where the OP stated that they were a comms major and wanted to be a Youtuber/influencer but was working at some dead end job they hated. I might be getting some details not quite right but I do recall the OP wanted to be an influencer.

IMO, now a days, these are the types of people who major in Comms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I see these lists and posts it makes me realize that most people have very limited imaginations. Many people do not work in their degree field, so why is one’s major so important? Also, when you graduate from college, you are 22 and have lots of life ahead of you. Who cares about your first job? If you have any intelligence at all, you would have to be bonkers to believe that your life is ruined because you pursued an English degree and now are 22. Even people who pursue more practical degrees like economics, get MBAs and law degrees after undergraduate school. I think an English major could do the same.

Agree! Your career can be a winding path. It does not have to be a straight line slog through college, grad school and the same desk for 40 years. The interesting people have done many things so they bring a unique perspective to their workplace.

I hire people and I’m always interested in different experiences and how that shapes a candidate.

Of course, I am one of the posters who firmly believes college is not trade school and I don’t worship the T20 schools. I’m a flexible enough person to see that talent comes in many shapes and sizes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, political science are some of the worst majors out there. Public universities should scrap these majors - what is the point of funding a major that consists of constant activist struggle sessions?

Communications is obviously a major meant for athletes and those who can't do any other major.

One of my nieces was a gender studies major. Went to med school, and is currently at Harvard.

Yes, so she needed another degree to get a good job. I think that's the point.

If you want to go to med school, you have to get an undergraduate degree (with few exceptions). Apparently perfectly good schools don't think her gender studies degree is one "of the worst majors out there".

What if she had not gotten into a medical school? Then what? Obviously if you go onto a graduate degree in something else, then your initial major doesn't matter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting that criminology is one of the least regretted majors and sociology is one of the most regretted. Almost all of the criminology classes are sociology classes. A criminal justice degree is a waste of 150k because you don't need need the degree to get a job as a police officer. Furthermore, college doesn't give you any of the skills it takes to do the job, so big waste of time/energy/money.

Cops usually don’t go to college. Criminology is for pre law or national security futures.

About half of cops in the better dept's have a 4 yr degree. After all of this BLM stuff started, nobody wants to be a police officer. The biggest obstacle for prospective employees is making it through the hiring process. So basically, no degree necessary. Go woke! Lol

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While education degree is on the list, the worst offendor IMO is a comms degree. At least with an education degree you can go into teaching, even as a lot of teachers want to leave the profession.

A comms degree is a fluff degree like Art History major. A comms degree is probably the easiest degree, and it's what you major in when you are not very smart and don't want to work hard in college.

One can do far more with a communication degree than an education degree.

You sound dumb.

We need more teachers, not more youtubers or influencers. Comms degree is a joke degree. You might as well go to community college or a trade school.

You seem to be really angry and hurt and have some personal vendetta against communication majors! LOL

Did someone with a communication degree personally hurt you?

we need more teachers and less youtubers/influencers. IMO, these people make the world worse.

DP: How in the world to do equate Comm degree w/ youtuber? You just don't understand what is required, I think. Just speak to your own experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, political science are some of the worst majors out there. Public universities should scrap these majors - what is the point of funding a major that consists of constant activist struggle sessions?

Communications is obviously a major meant for athletes and those who can't do any other major.

I have a Poli Sci undergrad and a gender studies/policy graduate degree. I think they were incredibly useful, and weirdly my graduate degree might be more helpful. I currently run a consulting agency and both have helped me be a very strategic thinker, able to explore outside viewpoints, and generally understand the world around me. They are both super versatile as well. If my kids were interested, I wouldn't have an issue with these as majors.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, political science are some of the worst majors out there. Public universities should scrap these majors - what is the point of funding a major that consists of constant activist struggle sessions?

Communications is obviously a major meant for athletes and those who can't do any other major.

One of my nieces was a gender studies major. Went to med school, and is currently at Harvard.

That's the point. These majors are worthless by themselves, and require going onto advanced degrees to have any point.

The problem is, the vast majority of students taking these majors are not going to medical school or graduate school, not least because they cannot afford it. So they are in-debting themselves for a degree that is unemployable and worthless.

No one fails in these courses. Colleges love them because the cost of instruction is very little (no lab equipment, etc.) and it gives them guaranteed income since students who dropped out of more difficult and worthwhile majors stay at the school instead of dropping out altogether.

They also happen to be the most popular majors, so colleges are graduating boatloads of these majors with no future prospects. Look at the distribution of majors in post universities - these useless majors largely dominate. Meanwhile STEM degrees cull students due to lack of professors.

Public universities should focus on the public utility, not activist struggle sessions and ego-stroking for professors (who themselves went to SLACs and private universities). A single STEM professor hired is worth the investment in 10 professors in these worthless majors.

Note that I didn't list out degrees in Education, Psychology etc., because while they tend to also be on the easy side, they provide valuable training for society. Psychology majors go into counseling and Education majors go into K-12 teaching (although these days they need to get masters and certification in many states).

You really don't understand the concept of education or these majors. They develop critical thinking and writing skills. They helpd students develop perspectives of issues that may challenge their own. That is worthwhile. Education does not mean job training or trade school. BTW, students fail humanities course all the time. I am a professor and enter the grades!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While education degree is on the list, the worst offendor IMO is a comms degree. At least with an education degree you can go into teaching, even as a lot of teachers want to leave the profession.

A comms degree is a fluff degree like Art History major. A comms degree is probably the easiest degree, and it's what you major in when you are not very smart and don't want to work hard in college.

One can do far more with a communication degree than an education degree.

You sound dumb.

We need more teachers, not more youtubers or influencers. Comms degree is a joke degree. You might as well go to community college or a trade school.

You seem to be really angry and hurt and have some personal vendetta against communication majors! LOL

Did someone with a communication degree personally hurt you?

we need more teachers and less youtubers/influencers. IMO, these people make the world worse.

DP: How in the world to do equate Comm degree w/ youtuber? You just don't understand what is required, I think. Just speak to your own experience.

What is required for a comms major? Not hard classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, political science are some of the worst majors out there. Public universities should scrap these majors - what is the point of funding a major that consists of constant activist struggle sessions?

Communications is obviously a major meant for athletes and those who can't do any other major.

I have a Poli Sci undergrad and a gender studies/policy graduate degree. I think they were incredibly useful, and weirdly my graduate degree might be more helpful. I currently run a consulting agency and both have helped me be a very strategic thinker, able to explore outside viewpoints, and generally understand the world around me. They are both super versatile as well. If my kids were interested, I wouldn't have an issue with these as majors.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, political science are some of the worst majors out there. Public universities should scrap these majors - what is the point of funding a major that consists of constant activist struggle sessions?

Communications is obviously a major meant for athletes and those who can't do any other major.

One of my nieces was a gender studies major. Went to med school, and is currently at Harvard.

That's the point. These majors are worthless by themselves, and require going onto advanced degrees to have any point.

The problem is, the vast majority of students taking these majors are not going to medical school or graduate school, not least because they cannot afford it. So they are in-debting themselves for a degree that is unemployable and worthless.

No one fails in these courses. Colleges love them because the cost of instruction is very little (no lab equipment, etc.) and it gives them guaranteed income since students who dropped out of more difficult and worthwhile majors stay at the school instead of dropping out altogether.

They also happen to be the most popular majors, so colleges are graduating boatloads of these majors with no future prospects. Look at the distribution of majors in post universities - these useless majors largely dominate. Meanwhile STEM degrees cull students due to lack of professors.

Public universities should focus on the public utility, not activist struggle sessions and ego-stroking for professors (who themselves went to SLACs and private universities). A single STEM professor hired is worth the investment in 10 professors in these worthless majors.

Note that I didn't list out degrees in Education, Psychology etc., because while they tend to also be on the easy side, they provide valuable training for society. Psychology majors go into counseling and Education majors go into K-12 teaching (although these days they need to get masters and certification in many states).

You really don't understand the concept of education or these majors. They develop critical thinking and writing skills. They helpd students develop perspectives of issues that may challenge their own. That is worthwhile. Education does not mean job training or trade school. BTW, students fail humanities course all the time. I am a professor and enter the grades!

You're in your own little world. Trade schools? What do you mean, welding?

People go to college so they can get a decent job that pays $$. No, a degree in gender studies or AA studies is a waste of money. People in the real world want college to prepare themselves for work in a particular field. Leaning how to "develop perspectives" is not a good deal for 1/4 mil $.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, political science are some of the worst majors out there. Public universities should scrap these majors - what is the point of funding a major that consists of constant activist struggle sessions?

Communications is obviously a major meant for athletes and those who can't do any other major.

I have a Poli Sci undergrad and a gender studies/policy graduate degree. I think they were incredibly useful, and weirdly my graduate degree might be more helpful. I currently run a consulting agency and both have helped me be a very strategic thinker, able to explore outside viewpoints, and generally understand the world around me. They are both super versatile as well. If my kids were interested, I wouldn't have an issue with these as majors.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, political science are some of the worst majors out there. Public universities should scrap these majors - what is the point of funding a major that consists of constant activist struggle sessions?

Communications is obviously a major meant for athletes and those who can't do any other major.

One of my nieces was a gender studies major. Went to med school, and is currently at Harvard.

That's the point. These majors are worthless by themselves, and require going onto advanced degrees to have any point.

The problem is, the vast majority of students taking these majors are not going to medical school or graduate school, not least because they cannot afford it. So they are in-debting themselves for a degree that is unemployable and worthless.

No one fails in these courses. Colleges love them because the cost of instruction is very little (no lab equipment, etc.) and it gives them guaranteed income since students who dropped out of more difficult and worthwhile majors stay at the school instead of dropping out altogether.

They also happen to be the most popular majors, so colleges are graduating boatloads of these majors with no future prospects. Look at the distribution of majors in post universities - these useless majors largely dominate. Meanwhile STEM degrees cull students due to lack of professors.

Public universities should focus on the public utility, not activist struggle sessions and ego-stroking for professors (who themselves went to SLACs and private universities). A single STEM professor hired is worth the investment in 10 professors in these worthless majors.

Note that I didn't list out degrees in Education, Psychology etc., because while they tend to also be on the easy side, they provide valuable training for society. Psychology majors go into counseling and Education majors go into K-12 teaching (although these days they need to get masters and certification in many states).

You really don't understand the concept of education or these majors. They develop critical thinking and writing skills. They helpd students develop perspectives of issues that may challenge their own. That is worthwhile. Education does not mean job training or trade school. BTW, students fail humanities course all the time. I am a professor and enter the grades!

You're in your own little world. Trade schools? What do you mean, welding?

People go to college so they can get a decent job that pays $$. No, a degree in gender studies or AA studies is a waste of money. People in the real world want college to prepare themselves for work in a particular field. Leaning how to "develop perspectives" is not a good deal for 1/4 mil $.

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