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

[Anonymous]

Low: general studies

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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.

Those are mosty the kids who went to a school without undergrad business or weren’t able to get into the business school. When that happens, the school usually recommends economics instead.

That's not at all true. Economics is harder than business. Economics majors do better than business majors on the LSAT, GRE, and GMAT.

It is often true because business schools have limited enrollment and can’t take everyone. So they will go the economics route instead and look to the MBA. Thats not to say some students don’t choose economics from the get go. However we were talking about students with an interest in business.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/01/28/business-is-the-most-popular-college-major-but-that-doesnt-mean-its-a-good-choice/

[Anonymous]

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

Geoscience majors are lowbrow - we're all dirtbags...

[Anonymous]

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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 think Wharton undergrad is an exception. Two cousins did that and are extremely successful w only an undergrad - went straight into I banking. 20 years later, one is still at Goldman and the other has her own B2B business.

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Anonymous wrote:Electrical and chemical engineering are higher-brow than mechanical engineering. Civil engineering is the lowest-brow engineering. Humanities are usually higher-brow than social sciences but hard sciences are mixed.

Chemical Engineering is the king of engineering. And the other disciplines are as you said. I should know because I am a Chemical Engineer.

It’s what my sister the chemical engineer told me!

[Anonymous]

Theoretical physics is the only major that is highbrow.

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Nice attempt at diversion OP. It's not the major--it's the school. High Brow= Ivy. Low Brow-- everywhere else you striver

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Pre-professional degrees are all garbage

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Classics( Greek & Latin) is highest brow

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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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highbrow: Mathematics and Philosophy, Fine Art, Classics, Classics and English, Physics and Philosophy

lowbrow: communication, social science, political science

Engineering, Law, Medicine and Business are neither.

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Anonymous wrote:I tend to implicitly think of engineering degrees as middle-brow in the educational spectrum (with areas like humanities, natural and social sciences higher brow and explicit career prep--hotel management, communications as lower. Engineering, Business, and Accounting would probably be in similar "brow" spaces in my mental map). This is likely because the engineers in my family, who went to top engineering schools, do not seem to be educated in meaningful ways outside their major. Their perceptions/interpretations of films, books, art etc. are fairly superficial. They tend to have simplistic understandings of complex political, social and cultural events. They did perfectly fine in the intro classes they took in gen ed areas, but they didn't meaningfully absorb the discourse in a way they can use outside of class. They don't write well. They think mechanistically--which is fantastic for their field and very useful for society . They are happy, skilled, and earn good wages but are less sophisticated in cultural, artistic or intellectual matters than those in our family who studied humanities, natural or social sciences. A lot of this implicit thought is built on the frame of Plato's Republic though--which has seeped into our minds even if we never read or have forgotten it.

You’re off your rocker if you think engineering isn’t high brow. Try completing a 4 yr engg. degree. Any engg. discipline will do.

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Anonymous wrote:Electrical and chemical engineering are higher-brow than mechanical engineering. Civil engineering is the lowest-brow engineering. Humanities are usually higher-brow than social sciences but hard sciences are mixed.

+1. More to the point, UMich has something called Industrial & Operations “Engineering” at their College of Engineering and it’s known as the hideout for absolute bottom decile students.

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Anonymous wrote:I tend to implicitly think of engineering degrees as middle-brow in the educational spectrum (with areas like humanities, natural and social sciences higher brow and explicit career prep--hotel management, communications as lower. Engineering, Business, and Accounting would probably be in similar "brow" spaces in my mental map). This is likely because the engineers in my family, who went to top engineering schools, do not seem to be educated in meaningful ways outside their major. Their perceptions/interpretations of films, books, art etc. are fairly superficial. They tend to have simplistic understandings of complex political, social and cultural events. They did perfectly fine in the intro classes they took in gen ed areas, but they didn't meaningfully absorb the discourse in a way they can use outside of class. They don't write well. They think mechanistically--which is fantastic for their field and very useful for society . They are happy, skilled, and earn good wages but are less sophisticated in cultural, artistic or intellectual matters than those in our family who studied humanities, natural or social sciences. A lot of this implicit thought is built on the frame of Plato's Republic though--which has seeped into our minds even if we never read or have forgotten it.

You’re off your rocker if you think engineering isn’t high brow. Try completing a 4 yr engg. degree. Any engg. discipline will do.

Difficult and for smart kids is not the same as high brow. Art history is much more high brow than engineering.

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It *really* depends on the status of the college. You can study whatever you want an an Ivy and you’ll always have a leg up.

But at a big public U, outside of STEM, most of their undergrad departments are a joke. And at more or less open-admit regional universities, only teaching, accounting, nursing and engineering (if offered) degrees are worth it.

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Anonymous wrote:Low brow: education majors. Unfortunately the teaching profession just doesn’t have respect (which I think it should.)

High Brow: STEM/pre-med

So what if I was a bio major- and then went back to school to get a masters in education? Does that get me respect?