Why do schools offer so many useless degrees?

Anonymous
Good luck getting a job with that gender studies degree. You’ll be back in here in a year whining about student debt and begging for forgiveness. I do think that colleges are accountable to students to describe potential career paths and earning potential by major.
Anonymous
I wish my GMU kid got that cybersecurity major -but it didn’t exist back then.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Good luck getting a job with that gender studies degree. You’ll be back in here in a year whining about student debt and begging for forgiveness. I do think that colleges are accountable to students to describe potential career paths and earning potential by major.


Better off than without a degree. In the long term.
Anonymous
I thought OP was going to list Art History or Anthropology or those kind of degrees.
Anonymous
I have a friend who majored in anthropology who is a lawyer

One of the smartest people I know
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Good luck getting a job with that gender studies degree. You’ll be back in here in a year whining about student debt and begging for forgiveness. I do think that colleges are accountable to students to describe potential career paths and earning potential by major.


Someone doing gender studies could become a consultant to F500 companies or go into HR...plenty of opportunities.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Good luck getting a job with that gender studies degree. You’ll be back in here in a year whining about student debt and begging for forgiveness. I do think that colleges are accountable to students to describe potential career paths and earning potential by major.


Better off than without a degree. In the long term.



Not if you are hounded by $200k in debt. My niece had to declare bankruptcy (yes I know that federal loans cannot be discharged by bankruptcy-she owed everywhere)
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Oh come on. Most people on here would never let their kids major in these.


I don’t get what’s wrong with these majors?
Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Good luck getting a job with that gender studies degree. You’ll be back in here in a year whining about student debt and begging for forgiveness. I do think that colleges are accountable to students to describe potential career paths and earning potential by major.


Better off than without a degree. In the long term.



Not if you are hounded by $200k in debt. My niece had to declare bankruptcy (yes I know that federal loans cannot be discharged by bankruptcy-she owed everywhere)


That is an insane amount of college debt. No way. People need to stop this insanity
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Good luck getting a job with that gender studies degree. You’ll be back in here in a year whining about student debt and begging for forgiveness. I do think that colleges are accountable to students to describe potential career paths and earning potential by major.


Better off than without a degree. In the long term.



Not if you are hounded by $200k in debt. My niece had to declare bankruptcy (yes I know that federal loans cannot be discharged by bankruptcy-she owed everywhere)


Nobody has $200,000 in debt for an undergraduate degree. The average debt is $30k.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Good luck getting a job with that gender studies degree. You’ll be back in here in a year whining about student debt and begging for forgiveness. I do think that colleges are accountable to students to describe potential career paths and earning potential by major.


Someone doing gender studies could become a consultant to F500 companies or go into HR...plenty of opportunities.


They could also become president but they will not…..they’ll be an angry barista with no future.
Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Good luck getting a job with that gender studies degree. You’ll be back in here in a year whining about student debt and begging for forgiveness. I do think that colleges are accountable to students to describe potential career paths and earning potential by major.


Better off than without a degree. In the long term.



Not if you are hounded by $200k in debt. My niece had to declare bankruptcy (yes I know that federal loans cannot be discharged by bankruptcy-she owed everywhere)


That is an insane amount of college debt. No way. People need to stop this insanity


A student can’t take out more than about $27k. Anything more is co-signed by the parent.
Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Good luck getting a job with that gender studies degree. You’ll be back in here in a year whining about student debt and begging for forgiveness. I do think that colleges are accountable to students to describe potential career paths and earning potential by major.


Better off than without a degree. In the long term.



Not if you are hounded by $200k in debt. My niece had to declare bankruptcy (yes I know that federal loans cannot be discharged by bankruptcy-she owed everywhere)


That is an insane amount of college debt. No way. People need to stop this insanity


Yes, we need to fund our universities so that students don’t need to take on crazy debts.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Good luck getting a job with that gender studies degree. You’ll be back in here in a year whining about student debt and begging for forgiveness. I do think that colleges are accountable to students to describe potential career paths and earning potential by major.


Someone doing gender studies could become a consultant to F500 companies or go into HR...plenty of opportunities.


They could also become president but they will not…..they’ll be an angry barista with no future.
4th tier law school and then wife on daddy's money at my school.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Good luck getting a job with that gender studies degree. You’ll be back in here in a year whining about student debt and begging for forgiveness. I do think that colleges are accountable to students to describe potential career paths and earning potential by major.


Better off than without a degree. In the long term.



Not if you are hounded by $200k in debt. My niece had to declare bankruptcy (yes I know that federal loans cannot be discharged by bankruptcy-she owed everywhere)


Nobody has $200,000 in debt for an undergraduate degree. The average debt is $30k.
https://studentaccounts.gwu.edu/undergraduate-tuitionGW ain't cheap.
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