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[quote=Anonymous]If there is any hope that your child will want to do something vaguely connected to healthcare, but doesn't want to work at a clinical job, I would suggest a hard science or engineering discipline...perhaps bio-mechanical engineering, or something else that would demonstrate an aptitude for hard science, but shares tenets of the healthcare world, and offers more employment opportunities.

As an analyst and PM who often hires and manages these graduates, I always prefer someone with a hard science background that stretched to learn how to program, or learned to specialize in analytical tools that suit the task. IT degrees out there tend to be siloed into development, management, or data science and administration. The fact of the matter is, many college grads of comp sci schools are so tightly tracked that they have very little room to move out a track that might not suit them well in the working world. If your child wants to move into computing from either science or engineering, it seems easier to stretch in that way, rather than vice versa. And, certainly, someone who can write complete sentences and is socially functional is becoming a rarer find. You might laugh, but it is true.

In terms of a business degree, if someone wants to move into a management position that moves away from the technical nuts and bolts is likely better off getting an MBA.[/quote]

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