Why do schools offer so many useless degrees?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Off the top of my head, I can think of multiple schools that offer 4+1 MBA programs (right after undergrad!!). Then, there’s stand-alone majors offered at many schools like criminology, cybersecurity, criminal justice, entrepreneurship, pharmacology, and insurance.

Go back to the basics, people.

Do you have any idea how much in demand the GMU cybersecurity students are? They can write their own tickets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I teach (in a totally different subject) at a school that offers a lot of these majors, and actually, these specific majors are really tapped into local/regional hiring contacts, which is kind of the goal after college, right?

As for the MBA right after school, yeah, I agree with you. Work first for a MBA that employers will recognize as really attractive.

OP here. That clears some things up. Some majors seemed very niche.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Off the top of my head, I can think of multiple schools that offer 4+1 MBA programs (right after undergrad!!). Then, there’s stand-alone majors offered at many schools like criminology, cybersecurity, criminal justice, entrepreneurship, pharmacology, and insurance.

Go back to the basics, people.

Do you have any idea how much in demand the GMU cybersecurity students are? They can write their own tickets.

my daughter was a risk management and insurance major at Wisconsin and this was her experience there too.

[Anonymous]

The snobbiness and bubble-living is off the charts in this one. Disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The snobbiness and bubble-living is off the charts in this one. Disgusting.

Can you just take your entitlement judgment somewhere else? Plenty of other places to lecture on the internet

[Anonymous]

Unpopular opinion: There is no such thing as a useless degree.

[Anonymous]

Some of those are acually not examples of useless degrees.

However yes there are tons of useless degrees
Ahteletes, Legacies, URMs, First Gen, LGBTQ, etc. all need a major, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of those are acually not examples of useless degrees.

However yes there are tons of useless degrees

Ahteletes, Legacies, URMs, First Gen, LGBTQ, etc. all need a major, too.

Excuse me? I have no idea what this even means.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of those are acually not examples of useless degrees.

However yes there are tons of useless degrees
Ahteletes, Legacies, URMs, First Gen, LGBTQ, etc. all need a major, too.

Excuse me? I have no idea what this even means.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of those are acually not examples of useless degrees.

However yes there are tons of useless degrees
Ahteletes, Legacies, URMs, First Gen, LGBTQ, etc. all need a major, too.

First Gen and URM kids that get into college are very qualified. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of those are acually not examples of useless degrees.

However yes there are tons of useless degrees
Ahteletes, Legacies, URMs, First Gen, LGBTQ, etc. all need a major, too.

Excuse me? I have no idea what this even means.

Ah yes gay people and minorities aren’t smart enough for “real” majors. DCUM keeps sinking lower and lower.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Unpopular opinion: There is no such thing as a useless degree.

Fine arts financed through loans for a student who needs to work for a living

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unpopular opinion: There is no such thing as a useless degree.

Fine arts financed through loans for a student who needs to work for a living

Theater is worse.

[Anonymous]

I know someone with a BS, MA, and PHD in Leadership. They're working in a Coordinator position at a university in their mid thirties. I'd say it's been fairly useless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know someone with a BS, MA, and PHD in Leadership. They're working in a Coordinator position at a university in their mid thirties. I'd say it's been fairly useless.

keyword is someone

I know someone who owns a multi million dollar company. He doesn't have a college degree

What does this mean to you?