What majors are safe?

[Anonymous]

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?

Prole

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

This. Especially math teachers. Male teachers are also in demand.

[Anonymous]

Nursing and teaching are the reasons we haven’t seen the same rates of unemployment by women as men. Conditions are crap but you will have a guaranteed job.

[Anonymous]

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.

Consulting accounting engineering CS Data Science - all start at 80-100k plus with an undergrad degree. Do you live under a rock??

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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.

I don't see a lot of unemployed kids out of harvard or stanford regardless of major.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Consulting accounting engineering CS Data Science - all start at 80-100k plus with an undergrad degree. Do you live under a rock??

Engineering pay is pretty dependent on field. Accounting typically pays 60k.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Consulting accounting engineering CS Data Science - all start at 80-100k plus with an undergrad degree. Do you live under a rock??

for indians. they don’t hire american kids anymore

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Consulting accounting engineering CS Data Science - all start at 80-100k plus with an undergrad degree. Do you live under a rock??

for indians. they don’t hire american kids anymore

+ 1,000

- executive at major accounting firm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I don't see a lot of unemployed kids out of harvard or stanford regardless of major.

+1

My nephew just graduated from Yale and had 4 job offers. He did econ and math.

He’ll be working at a hedge fund. I don’t know the precise numbers but I know his base salary is over 100k plus a generous bonus.

[Anonymous]

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

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.

DP. Why? On campus recruiting is the way a huge number of kids find jobs these days. Why is this such a foreign concept on here? It’s not the 80s anymore.

[Anonymous]

My class of 23 kid with a degree in Applied Math/Data Science from a T20 got a job with a government contractor doing defense intelligence stuff right out of school. He survived the cuts, probably due to his top secret clearance. He's making six figures and likes what he is doing. I don't know if that would be the case, though, if he had graduated this year. Timing is everything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Consulting accounting engineering CS Data Science - all start at 80-100k plus with an undergrad degree. Do you live under a rock??

for indians. they don’t hire american kids anymore

+ 1,000

- executive at major accounting firm

My kid’s going to have a hard time landing something.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

The job he chose came from an internship. The other offer was from his capstone project industry partner. Same salary, less interesting work.

[Anonymous]

AI will reduce college to an expensive summer camp. Not a career track.

[Anonymous]

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.

People with pre-0professional degrees. Accountants,Nurses, etc.