What majors are safe?

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Anonymous wrote:Bachelors in Business Administration is the best ideally from because they are the smartest out of all majors and it guarantees you a 500k starting salary as a financial officials. Highest IQ easily.

lol too funny

As soon as they mention IQ…

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Anonymous wrote:How many adults do you know who got a good job right out of college, without a grad degree? I know almost none. The people I know without grad degrees started in really low-level jobs where any major would have been fine.

My niece's first job out of undergrad (Econ/Math major) gave her a $75k base with a $20k bonus. She graduated from a university with a 35% acceptance rate (60% if you ED) - her school is routinely insulted here, but she had a great collegiate experience and now, five years out of undergrad, is making around $200 inc bonus. There is no way she would have landed her first job without that major and the experience she had by the time she graduated college.

OP, do not take that to mean everyone had to major in Econ (sometimes it feels like everyone is) - my advice on that front is to have them major in what they are genuinely interested in. Seriously. It is not worth trying to guess about what jobs will be 'hot' 5 years from now, because AI is going to reshape industries even more than it already has. And, no, that doesn't mean kids need to become plumbers and electricians (unless they want to). It means that a smart and motivated Philosophy major should not being choosing CompSci or Econ or whatever instead of what they feel passionate about.

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Anonymous wrote:Major matters very little at top schools.
Every one of DC’s 2025 eleven close friends from their top10 has a job or grad/law/med. majors include english, classics, double math and french, history, biology. Not one got a job through parents or family all were related to internship, professor connection or campus recruiting. Grad and professional school of course is highly recommendation and research based. This school is on all target lists and has very high grad /law /med matriculation of course which helps a lot. High school friends from other colleges did not do as well but more than 75% have a job or grad plans.
The best plan in a down market is go to the most successful outcome schools for all Majors

I agree with you that kids should not focus on getting a job before choosing a major, but I am 100% sure you are wrong about none of those kids using parents or friends to get internships and jobs. 100% sure lol.

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Accounting.

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Criminology

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I've been wondering about Information Systems. It seems like these will be the people that select, integrate, and support the AI systems going into companies, right? I'm not talking about programmers but rather the people managing the technology.

Thoughts?

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Anonymous wrote:Criminology

A complete waste of time if you just want to be an officer.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been wondering about Information Systems. It seems like these will be the people that select, integrate, and support the AI systems going into companies, right? I'm not talking about programmers but rather the people managing the technology.

Thoughts?

People in MIS do not manage these systems. Informaticians do. Informatics is different from MIS, and MIS is really easily replaceable by IT.

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health

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My son just graduated with a data science major, had two job offers by winter break. Thought most classmates in his major had jobs. He makes $85k.

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Anonymous wrote:My son just graduated with a data science major, had two job offers by winter break. Thought most classmates in his major had jobs. He makes $85k.

That's great! Did he have an internship that led to the job?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Major matters very little at top schools.
Every one of DC’s 2025 eleven close friends from their top10 has a job or grad/law/med. majors include english, classics, double math and french, history, biology. Not one got a job through parents or family all were related to internship, professor connection or campus recruiting. Grad and professional school of course is highly recommendation and research based. This school is on all target lists and has very high grad /law /med matriculation of course which helps a lot. High school friends from other colleges did not do as well but more than 75% have a job or grad plans.
The best plan in a down market is go to the most successful outcome schools for all Majors

Oh I call BS.

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To include the entire post. It's the poster who claims to know all the details about her kid's group of friends.

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Every college grad that is a teacher is being offered a job before they graduate with starting salaries in the mid 50-60k range in our area in public school. They will have their graduate degrees paid for and PhDs if they want them. I still, would not recommend this field to anyone. - a current teacher

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22:11 here and I’m 30 years in and make 120k. Some of your new grads will make more than me in a few years. What they will get in teaching is job security. They will still have very long hours and in the early years, not a lot of vacation because they will need a second job and summer school/tutoring.

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Nursing. We still have a big nursing shortage in the US.