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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is the “STEM” only approach to college a first generation or Asian immigrant thing? It is a bit jarring to read the lack of appreciation for becoming a well rounded, educated adult that is knowledgeable about history, religion, philosophy, literature, politics, world languages and, yes, the sciences.

Since ROI seems most important in this discussion, our HHI is over $2 million and our college degrees are in English and Political Science. [/quote]
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We have the same HHI and our liberal arts degrees were in Econ and gasp….German! We both went straight to wall st, and neither got any advanced degrees. I’ve posted this before but on wall st we always were involved in recruiting so we’d get a say in the new hires for our group. Almost all of our hires were either small liberal arts colleges or ivies. [b]We wanted the kids that had learned how to learn. [/b]We’d be teaching them everything they needed to know, they just needed the ability to learn it. I learned from my experience after hiring a few finance majors from big universities. They were all disasters as they essentially had memorized ways to do things but were incapable of learning how to apply them to the real world. They were also way behind as far as being able to chat about current events, geopolitical things (which obviously played into our industry), etc. [/quote]

If you don't think STEM majors have "learned how to learn" you don't know much about STEM majors. They learn more, much harder things than any liberal arts major. [/quote]

The point is people need to get over the idea that only stem majors are employable.  It's simply not true.  Good stem majors learn how to learn and have amazing critical thinking skills, and at most universities the kids learn how to write very well.   Same for business majors and all the humanities.  Ultimately, I want workers who can think outside the box, and don't care as much what their major was (unless I'm hiring a mech engineer, then yes, they need the experience), but many jobs you learn on the job.  Many in finance learn on the job, many in IT do as well. 
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