Majors to go into
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Anonymous
Lol trying to walk back the fact you said business degree is useless. Go back to your vodka. |
Anonymous
Can you count numbers? https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/search/?page=0&sort=threshold_earnings:desc&toggle=institutions WTF is wrong with these people |
Anonymous
This poor lonely loser. |
Anonymous
You can't come back with fact and logic |
Anonymous
Well at both colleges my kids attended/are attending, getting a minor in another subject was not hard and getting into the courses was not either. However, my kids are at schools with less than 8K students and places where you can easily change majors, as long as you have certain prerequisites---like you need first calc class to get into business if you were not admitted directly, but it's easy to register take the course and then officially switch. My other kid is at an open curriculum school where many double major (in LA) and most everyone does 1-2 minors due to the open curriculum. Getting a formal minor requires planning to get on the right path. But it can be done. Even without a minor, having 2-3 courses in the minor you are interested in goes a long way to a career path, even if you don't get the minor (ie having 2-3 comp sci courses or data analytics or Econ and finance help market you). But if you are at a large state university where even kids who are majoring in CS or Business struggle to find the courses they want, your kid might struggle to get into a minor as well. That is just one of the reasons my kids focused on smaller schools in their applicantions. However, that is not the case at many many smaller schools, especially ones where kids can essentially major in anything they want. |
Anonymous
NP. Lol someone sure is leaning hard on the “drunk” thing ever since that earlier poster called you out 
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Anonymous
I usually don’t engage trolls but I feel like you are so lonely maybe this is all you have in life. JIC https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ |
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| accounting at even a state school. Cant find a good CPA anywhere. |
Anonymous
Insults generally need to be coherent and directed at the right person for them to land well. Better luck next time? |
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As far as 'usefulness' is concerned, the society and industries know the best, and they would pay more for the more useful major.
If business major is useless at school A, humanities major would be much more useless.That's just a fact from the data by the Department of Education. I thought this was common sense, but apparently a lot of people are clueless.No wonder about the national student debt crisis and responsible taxpayers are penalized for these ignorant people. |
Anonymous
| Well, he changed his spacing and format. I mean this with genuine kindness: your anger and fixation are unusual and I encourage you to find help. |
Anonymous
Ugh if you are an example of a vaunted STEM grad, I’ll pass. I was a humanities major at a liberal arts college and not even in executive leadership but make well into the six figures. So you’re saying that’s useless degree? Are you saying that because I did not major in something that gave me specific job related skills then you are also wrong because though I did not “study” my field, I learned skills and gained competencies that made me a valuable candidate and employee while studying for my humanities degree. |
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| Consider one of the trade schools. Graduate with very little to no debt and find themselves in a six figure job instantly. |
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Not the previous poster. All degrees are important. We need LA majors and people in all fields. College is about the critical thinking skills and intensive writing being developed. The best way to do that is to study something you love! All I say is that know what options are immediately coming out of college for your major, and choose how much you borrow accordingly. And if you want to be a history major, that is awesome, but know that you might have to work just a tad bit more than a nursing major or engineering major or accounting major to find a job. So take whatever internships you can find and forge your way ahead. You might have to market yourself a bit more as there are not as many jobs that say "we need to hire a history major". What there are are jobs that say "we want to hire someone with a bachelors degree and we want you to have good writing and critical thinking skills", then it's up to you to demonstrate that. Plenty of people with LA degrees go far in life and earn great money. But it is a bit "easier" for an engineering or accountant to find a job and earn good money straight out of college. So if you want to major in communications, then find a correlated double major or minor to add on that you enjoy that will help you develop skills for the business world/help you get internships to forge the path you want to take. Because a communications major who also majored/minored in business does have a leg up on just a comm major. But know that your initial jobs out of college might not pay 85-100K (like engineering/CS/finance might), yes some do, but alot dont, so plan how much debt you will be able to pay back accordingly. An engineer with $100K of debt while not the best choice is a still not that bad given the expected starting salary. A social worker or history major or education major with $100K+ of debt could be facing a very rough first 10 years until they achieve a higher salary, given that fact that teachers and social workers do not typically make great salaries. So don't burden yourself with debt that isn't commensurate with your first 2-5 year anticipated salary. |
Anonymous
No this was nothing to do with STEM. OP is considering Marketing(business) and journalism. This was in response to below post which is totally wrong. I corrected the totally wrong information for people.
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