Just for fun - which majors are high-brow vs. low-brow?

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Anonymous wrote:Undergrad nursing degree is lowbrow.

Basically the more immediately useful the coursework/the more it specifically prepares you for things you will literally be doing in your job (assuming your job is not academia), the lower-brow it is. Computer Science degree where you do a ton of theory and math: highbrow. CS degree where you get really good at coding: lowbrow.

Then we get into countersignaling, which is a whole ‘bother ball of wax.

I would agree with this, but I've often wondered, how did Engineering, Architecture, and Computer Science bypass this label?

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Anonymous wrote:Business and engineering- high brow
Social services and education- low brow
Anything science or math- high brow

Interesting because I have seen on DCUM where people claim that getting an undergrad in business is low-brow, which being from a low-brow background, I did not know previously. Apparently, high-brow kids who are interested in business get a B.A in Economics and then go on to get their MBAs.

I am PP. I used to work for the University of Michigan and had access to all sorts of data on students' backgrounds, backgrounds of students in each major/college within the university, etc. Ross (business school) had far and away the wealthiest student body of all the undergraduate colleges at UMich, with the lowest percent of low-income/first generation students. Engineering was up there, too.

[Anonymous]

Engineering is not highbrow, architecture isn’t an undergrad degree, and comp sci is very borderline depending on how it’s taught.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Business and engineering- high brow
Social services and education- low brow
Anything science or math- high brow

Interesting because I have seen on DCUM where people claim that getting an undergrad in business is low-brow, which being from a low-brow background, I did not know previously. Apparently, high-brow kids who are interested in business get a B.A in Economics and then go on to get their MBAs.

I am PP. I used to work for the University of Michigan and had access to all sorts of data on students' backgrounds, backgrounds of students in each major/college within the university, etc. Ross (business school) had far and away the wealthiest student body of all the undergraduate colleges at UMich, with the lowest percent of low-income/first generation students. Engineering was up there, too.

Wharton is an exception too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Business and engineering- high brow
Social services and education- low brow
Anything science or math- high brow

Interesting because I have seen on DCUM where people claim that getting an undergrad in business is low-brow, which being from a low-brow background, I did not know previously. Apparently, high-brow kids who are interested in business get a B.A in Economics and then go on to get their MBAs.

I am PP. I used to work for the University of Michigan and had access to all sorts of data on students' backgrounds, backgrounds of students in each major/college within the university, etc. Ross (business school) had far and away the wealthiest student body of all the undergraduate colleges at UMich, with the lowest percent of low-income/first generation students. Engineering was up there, too.

BBA is for morons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Highbrow: literature, philosophy, art history.
Lowbrow: communications, education, criminology.

But is being a teacher, actually considered "low-brow" though? I can't say I consider it to be high-brow, but I've never really thought of it as low-brow either. And I know a lot of men in very professional jobs (lawyers, doctors, etc) who are married to teachers. But you really don't see such men married to Administrative Assistants, or Cosmetologists.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Highbrow: literature, philosophy, art history.
Lowbrow: communications, education, criminology.

This is correct.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Highbrow: literature, philosophy, art history.
Lowbrow: communications, education, criminology.

But is being a teacher, actually considered "low-brow" though? I can't say I consider it to be high-brow, but I've never really thought of it as low-brow either. And I know a lot of men in very professional jobs (lawyers, doctors, etc) who are married to teachers. But you really don't see such men married to Administrative Assistants, or Cosmetologists.

k-12 is low brow. College professor is high brow.

[Anonymous]

This is so stupid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Engineering is not highbrow, architecture isn’t an undergrad degree, and comp sci is very borderline depending on how it’s taught.

Agree. Anyone who says Engineering is highbrow doesn't understand the term.

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Anonymous wrote:Low Brow:

Home Economics Education
Recreation and Leisure Services
Psychology
Interior Design

I would disagree with Psychology. Low-brow doesn't simply mean "easy major" but more one that is a "newer major" that is not regarded as academic in nature. While Psychology is not difficult, it is definitely viewed as an academic discipline, and has been around as a major for a long time and is offered at the most prestigious universities.

Psych is higher-brow than the others in that list but social sciences are generally not highbrow. Cognitive Science and Biology are both higher-brow than Psychology.

Again, I'm not sure I would agree with this. I think some people are mixing up difficult for high brow. High brow is something that a kid from an old money New England family might major in, and the traditional liberal arts definitely fit that bill, even though they are easier than many "low-brow" degrees such as nursing. Generally speaking, if it is offered as an undergrad degree at Harvard it fits the bill as high-brow (except for media studies, that one's a weird anomaly)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is so stupid

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Engineering is not highbrow, architecture isn’t an undergrad degree, and comp sci is very borderline depending on how it’s taught.

Lots of school offer an undergrad in architecture.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is so stupid

+1

This thread is meant to be for fun. If you are going to get offended by it, then it's not the right place for you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Highbrow: literature, philosophy, art history.
Lowbrow: communications, education, criminology.

But is being a teacher, actually considered "low-brow" though? I can't say I consider it to be high-brow, but I've never really thought of it as low-brow either. And I know a lot of men in very professional jobs (lawyers, doctors, etc) who are married to teachers. But you really don't see such men married to Administrative Assistants, or Cosmetologists.

k-12 is low brow. College professor is high brow.

Lots of professional men are married to k-12 teachers.