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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He's my take on this.  Degrees have long been about class and separation.  It didn't matter so much what the degree was in but that you had one signaled to your potential employer that that you were of a certain class (not so much class of origin because if you had the means and wherewithal to make it through 4 years of study, you belonged in the safe, middle to upper-middle, employable class, especially if your degree was from a recognizable place).

More people are going to college and BA/BS rates will go much higher than 25%, making a college degree not carry the same weight. What will separate out potential applicants - what the degree is in.  If you get a vo-tech degree (business especially) then you will be sorted lower unless you went to the very best schools.  Liberal arts degree will be the marker of a certain class that employers will look for - someone with the means to study the liberal arts.  Add to that that liberal arts so teach critical analysis and writing skills (I promise that the graduates in history and English at my college do WAY more and WAY better writing than our business graduates), and liberal arts majors will be more employable and will make more money in the future.  Even now salary studies show that while they start lower their life-time earnings rise above those with more practical degrees.

Education is about class and always has been.[/quote]
What nonsense.

Education is not about class.  It's 2014.

Please explain why social sciences and liberal arts have shown to have the lowest starting salaries for the past couple of years.

I work for a major employer in finance.  We hire business degrees way before liberal arts.  In fact, a liberal arts degree won't even make it past the resume screening software.  [/quote]

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