Reply to Majors to go into

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Majors to go into"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As far as 'usefulness' is concerned, the society and industries know the best, and they would pay more for the more useful major.  
If business major is useless at school A, humanities major would be much more useless.That's just a fact from the data by the Department of Education.
I thought this was common sense, but apparently a lot of people are clueless.No wonder about the national student debt crisis and responsible taxpayers are penalized for these ignorant people.  [/quote]

Ugh if you are an example of a vaunted STEM grad, I’ll pass. I was a humanities major at a liberal arts college and not even in executive leadership but make well into the six figures. So you’re saying that’s useless degree?  Are you saying that because I did not major in something that gave me specific job related skills then you are also wrong because though I did not “study” my field, I learned skills and gained competencies that made me a valuable candidate and employee while studying for my humanities degree.   [/quote]

Not the previous poster.

All degrees are important.  We need LA majors and people in all fields.  College is about the critical thinking skills and intensive writing being developed. The best way to do that is to study something you love!  All I say is that know what options are immediately coming out of college for your major, and choose how much you borrow accordingly.  And if you want to be a history major, that is awesome, but know that you might have to work just a tad bit more than a nursing major or engineering major or accounting major to find a job.  So take whatever internships you can find and forge your way ahead.  You might have to market yourself a bit more as there are not as many jobs that say "we need to hire a history major".  What there are are jobs that say "we want to hire someone with a bachelors degree and we want you to have good writing and critical thinking skills", then it's up to you to demonstrate that.  Plenty of people with LA degrees go far in life and earn great money.  But it is a bit "easier" for an engineering or accountant to find a job and earn good money straight out of college.  
  
So if you want to major in communications, then find a correlated double major or minor to add on that you enjoy that will help you develop skills for the business world/help you get internships to forge the path you want to take.  Because a communications major who also majored/minored in business does have a leg up on just a comm major. 
But know that your initial jobs out of college might not pay 85-100K (like engineering/CS/finance might), yes some do, but alot dont, so plan how much debt you will be able to pay back accordingly.  An engineer with $100K of debt while not the best choice is a still not that bad given the expected starting salary.  A social worker or history major or education major with $100K+ of debt could be facing a very rough first 10 years until they achieve a higher salary, given that fact that teachers and social workers do not typically make great salaries.   So don't burden yourself with debt that isn't commensurate with your first 2-5 year anticipated salary.  
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics