Will STEM continue to be oversubscribed?

[Anonymous]

Historically, companies liked kids with STEM degrees bc it demonstrated that they had the chops to do most jobs, even if not in STEM.

[Anonymous]

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

With CS there are LOTS of jobs for folks who took the more difficult upper level electives (e.g., Compilers), but fewer jobs who focused on web programming or easier options in upper level electives. For CS at least, it is much more about which electives in major that one took than about which college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Historically, companies liked kids with STEM degrees bc it demonstrated that they had the chops to do most jobs, even if not in STEM.

[Anonymous]

Business seems even more oversubscribed than STEM. We have a bunch of money hungry kids with no passion for helping people or appreciating culture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Business seems even more oversubscribed than STEM. We have a bunch of money hungry kids with no passion for helping people or appreciating culture.

you can't eat culture or buy a house with it.

[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.

+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.

You are dreaming, those jobs disappear with the brain drain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Historically, companies liked kids with STEM degrees bc it demonstrated that they had the chops to do most jobs, even if not in STEM.

Historically that was true, because the STEM kids had a solid humanities background in addition to the STEM passion. But enshitification is real. HS writing expectations have diminished, and without the self-selected pool the STEM abilities are falling off, too.

[Anonymous]

Only on DCUM. The US doesn't have enough scientists. The US has too many scientists in training.