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[quote=Anonymous]Ok, DP above, so I was generalizing about real estate.  I have an MBA from a top business school but I thought it would be off topic in this thread to get into a discussion of project economics, portfolio risk, interest rates, etc.  That's really what I meant.  Whatever it was that Ivanka was supposedly learning at Wharton, LOL. The richest alums from my b-school who aren't old money made the beginnings of their $B fortunes in real estate so...I assume their education and MBA connections helped with that. Yes, I only remember one real estate specific class, but lots about entrepreneurship because it was trendy.

Onto the topic of what should and should not exist as majors at various universities.  Student demand usually determines what majors can continue to exist long run.  I personally have seen that there is a big tie between college sports and kinesiology as a degree - lots of athletes seem to major in that.  And college near-pro sports aren't going to get decoupled from the big universities any time soon.  They are too popular with alumni and locals, and also drive applications.

I personally think that Cornell should rename Human Ecology and ILR to get with the times, but I didn't go there so who am I to tell Cornell what to do?  My DC is going to apply RD to ILR even though I think the name is obsolete.  The content of the program and the classmates are worthy of respect.  Also, due to my family history, I give Cornell credit for being more egalitarian earlier.  Institutional values matter and cast a long shadow.

Looking back at college, especially for liberal arts majors, the exact content of the coursework doesn't matter that much.  Let's all get real about what we can still remember and use from what we studied in college.  And let's stop picking on majors we weren't enrolled in ourselves.  Let student demand determine what happens next.  I actually learned things about kinesiology from this thread that are teaching me that I should stop making wisecracks about the majors I see in the athletes' profiles when I pass through the living room during whatever "Big Game".  With the aging of our society, we're going to need more physical therapists and health professionals of all types.  Why limit those students to "lower rated" schools?[/quote]

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