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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Snobbery?

STEM is hot. Law is prestigious. DCUM seems to not like many majors outside those fields. 
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I think degrees in nursing, early childhood education, soil science, construction management, etc. are all better than a business degree, and I imagine that most DCUMers would agree with me. It's not about snobbery at all. [/quote]

Early childhood education is important but you run the risk of making as low as minimum wage for your entire career.  It would be a terrible financial decision to major in it.[/quote]

Disagree. Elementary school pay is not minimum wage. I just looked it up and in my district (Arlington) pay starts at 35 dollars an hour, plus benefits, for a 10-month job. Annual raises aren't great but if you do some online coursework to get a masters and you teach year-round, you can definitely be making 100K by the end of your career. I think elementary education is just as good as a general business degree in terms of ROI, all things considered. And we know that elementary education isn't a lucrative degree, which underscores how bad a business degree can be.

(To be clear, a business major is fine if you really hustle or already have connections, and obviously business-related majors like finance and accounting are way more lucrative than elementary education.)[/quote]

Have you ever lived outside the DMV?  And if you teach in MoCo, can you afford to live where your comfortable students live?

Elementary is very low paid in my state.  Early childhood specialization is often what daycare staff get.

Business, engineering, cs interns get paid decent money.  Student teaching might even cost the candidate $$$.[/quote]

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