Will STEM continue to be oversubscribed?

[Anonymous]

Asking out of curiosity. Today’s students are choosing STEM majors at high rates compared to those in the humanities and social sciences. Will we continue to see this, say in 10 years, or will the preference shift to other areas?

[Anonymous]

Yes it will. Because STEM is not just about the subject matter at hand, it is an approach to problem solving.

[Anonymous]

As long as STEM majors lead to a profitable career, it will remain popular. Particularly for some demographics it will continue for a while.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As long as STEM majors lead to a profitable career, it will remain popular. Particularly for some demographics it will continue for a while.

+1. It’s about the jobs.

[Anonymous]

Lol "oversubscribed" only the US would claim that it's possible to "oversubscribe" in math and science heavily fields that lead to high paying jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As long as STEM majors lead to a profitable career, it will remain popular.

This. It started with the Internet boom of the late 1990s and has kept going since because an engineering or CS degree usually leads to a good job with a higher than median salary (exceptions must exist somewhere, but not many).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Asking out of curiosity. Today’s students are choosing STEM majors at high rates compared to those in the humanities and social sciences. Will we continue to see this, say in 10 years, or will the preference shift to other areas?

I do not know what will be most in demand 10 years from now, but I do know that AI & ML will greatly affect academic choices during the next decade.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Most HS now are mostly STEM-focused. There is a glut of kids that can’t write or read a novel or locate foreign countries on a map and are all one dimensional.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Most HS now are mostly STEM-focused. There is a glut of kids that can’t write or read a novel or locate foreign countries on a map and are all one dimensional.

Your state doesn't require 4 years of english, US history, civics , world history to graduate?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As long as STEM majors lead to a profitable career, it will remain popular. Particularly for some demographics it will continue for a while.

+1. It’s about the jobs.

Yes. And the CS jobs are drying up.

My spouse was an Econ major and hired by a software consulting firm. Lead software specialist- led to starting own firm- expert in field. A lot of WS firms also hire history majors, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lol "oversubscribed" only the US would claim that it's possible to "oversubscribe" in math and science heavily fields that lead to high paying jobs.

+1 considering how many STEM PhDs are leaving the US because of the political climate, I'd say the current college generation and below might be under subscribed. We will need more people in STEM due to the brain drain from the US for the next decade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As long as STEM majors lead to a profitable career, it will remain popular. Particularly for some demographics it will continue for a while.

+1. It’s about the jobs.

Yes. And the CS jobs are drying up.

My spouse was an Econ major and hired by a software consulting firm. Lead software specialist- led to starting own firm- expert in field. A lot of WS firms also hire history majors, etc.

They are not "drying up". They over hired. The jobs are still there, it's just tempered now.

-signed someone working in tech

[Anonymous]

How is it oversubscribed? Except for CS, which I agree with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lol "oversubscribed" only the US would claim that it's possible to "oversubscribe" in math and science heavily fields that lead to high paying jobs.

If the point is high paying jobs, then of course it's possible to "oversubscribe," because too many people in the field will drive wages down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lol "oversubscribed" only the US would claim that it's possible to "oversubscribe" in math and science heavily fields that lead to high paying jobs.

If the point is high paying jobs, then of course it's possible to "oversubscribe," because too many people in the field will drive wages down.

as long as there are H1Bs, that is a sign there is no "oversubscribtion"