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[quote=Anonymous]11:39 here

[quote]Could not disagree more with this post. There's not question that the Liberal Arts are under fire today. Do they in and of themselves gurantee you a job such as a business degree would/could? Most likely no. But, you need to go into the process with the understanding of what a Liberal Arts degree can do for you. Teach you to think, write and communicate effecitvely. If your DS needs these skills to assist him a potential career down the road...he really ought to puruse this instead of STEM. The STEM appraoch is just not for everyone and thsoe who are forced into it are not happy. As one pp stated, the ultiamte goal here is for the DC to be happy in whatever pursuit they he/she chooses. We as parents need to provide direction but ultimately the choice is theirs not ours. Now, the above said, a humaniteis maajor can certainly fan out and take economics or courses that do touch on business. The foreign language is certainly helpful as well. International studies would be a real plus as well.

b/t/w....this post is NOT coming from a Liberal Arts professor worried about job security!!!![/quote]

I don't know what you disagree with here?  I basically said that learning how to write and communicate is important, and STEM is not for everyone.  What exactly are you disagreeing with?

[quote]11:39 I'm not sure your conclusions are evidence-based.[/quote]

On average do humanities kids make less money than STEM majors, especially engineering?  Sure.  But the question is by how much.  Here are some links that you might find informative.  The one below indicates that over time, if you subtract out graduate degrees, the pay differential becomes not particularly significant (with, again, the exception of engineering).  And on average, pre-professional degrees (such as business) don't necessarily make more than humanities degrees.

[url]http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/money-is-a-terrible-way-to-measure-the-value-of-a-college-major/283290/[/url]

Here is another link that is very informative.  It shows there are some hot areas, but in general, the differences are not nearly as stark as people on this board make them out to be:
[url]http://chronicle.com/article/Median-Earnings-by-Major-and/127604/[/url]

There are some super hot fields, for example median earning for a petroleum engineer is 120K, for an aerospace engineer is 87K (although aero jobs are very competitive).

However, for a biological engineer, it is 55K, for a chemist it is 58K, for a biochemist it is 53K, for a environmental scientist it is 51K.  Compare to some humanities majors--English is 48K, History is 57K, psychology is 50K.  It seems like on average the kids who major in the humanities are statistically slightly worse off, but the degree to which they are is grossly over-exaggerated.[/quote]

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