Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 13:14     Subject: Which majors finding employment in their field
The term liberal arts includes majors in humanities fields as well as chem bio math physics.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 10:28     Subject: Re:Which majors finding employment in their field
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Anonymous wrote:Accounting.
My dd had 3 job offers, including the 2 internships she did over the last 2 summers. She got to move to the city she wanted and is making fantastic money


Please share how much money we're talking about as an entry-level. I read that outlook for accountants will get worse with AI. idk anything about this career path and would appreciate your insights


Happy to hear this.

ALmost 100k (plus signing bonus).

AI can replace literally any job (including all engineering jobs, all computer science jobs that people seem to love so much on this site), so we need to chill. There is a SEVERE accounting shortage and as with any field right now, AI may support the job/industry, but it still requires more human beings. And in accounting, there are more openings than CPAs are available over the next decade plus.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 09:52     Subject: Which majors finding employment in their field
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Anonymous wrote:A better question might be: which students are finding gainful employment in jobs that are better than they would have gotten had they not attended college?

Many many students do not work “in their field”. I never did, not even close. But I’m doing great and liberal arts problem solving and critical thinking skills have helped me.


STEM degrees also teach critical thinking skills, btw.


Many stem degrees fall under the liberal arts category!

Why are you shouting at us? STEM may fall under 'Arts and Sciences', but i don't see how many STEM degrees fall under 'Liberal Arts'. Are you referring to a BA as opposed to a BS?

I think ^PP means like math, chemistry, physics.. those are LA. Engineering, CS.. those are not LA.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 09:48     Subject: Which majors finding employment in their field
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A better question might be: which students are finding gainful employment in jobs that are better than they would have gotten had they not attended college?

Many many students do not work “in their field”. I never did, not even close. But I’m doing great and liberal arts problem solving and critical thinking skills have helped me.


STEM degrees also teach critical thinking skills, btw.


Many stem degrees fall under the liberal arts category!

Why are you shouting at us? STEM may fall under 'Arts and Sciences', but i don't see how many STEM degrees fall under 'Liberal Arts'. Are you referring to a BA as opposed to a BS?
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 08:34     Subject: Which majors finding employment in their field
Accounting / Finance, has had a job lined up since summer after junior year in Accounting
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 08:19     Subject: Which majors finding employment in their field
Anonymous wrote:Theater.


What job did they get in theater?
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 08:16     Subject: Which majors finding employment in their field
Biochemistry - got a fellowship in a lab, paid, though not much! I am happy she’s employed! Hoping to go to medical school, but worried about the grad school debt cap in the latest Trump bill.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 08:13     Subject: Which majors finding employment in their field
Anonymous wrote:How about environmental science?
Anyone with feedback on that?


My friend's DD is an ES major and got a job at an environmental consulting firm. Was offered the job after interning last summer.
Anonymous
Post 06/10/2025 07:52     Subject: Re:Which majors finding employment in their field
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Accounting.
My dd had 3 job offers, including the 2 internships she did over the last 2 summers. She got to move to the city she wanted and is making fantastic money


Please share how much money we're talking about as an entry-level. I read that outlook for accountants will get worse with AI. idk anything about this career path and would appreciate your insights


ALmost 100k (plus signing bonus).

AI can replace literally any job (including all engineering jobs, all computer science jobs that people seem to love so much on this site), so we need to chill. There is a SEVERE accounting shortage and as with any field right now, AI may support the job/industry, but it still requires more human beings. And in accounting, there are more openings than CPAs are available over the next decade plus.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 22:22     Subject: Which majors finding employment in their field
Anonymous wrote:Aerospace engineering. When I graduated everyone I knew in my major who didn't go to grad school for a job in aerospace. I went to Purdue though which is a tragedy school.


Was this recent?
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 22:19     Subject: Which majors finding employment in their field
How about environmental science?
Anyone with feedback on that?
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 20:47     Subject: Which majors finding employment in their field
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Anonymous wrote:At graduation? Hearing CS is having a harder time.


Harder time than what?

Since your post specifically says a job “in their field”…I guarantee you that every humanities, physics, math, etc. major is having an infinitely harder time because last I saw there aren’t many history, philosophy, physicist jobs available (nor were there ever).


The field for history and philosophy is any field that needs people who can think critically, read large amounts, analyze it, and communicate findings.


No it isn’t…that’s a job that may be suited to those majors, but the field for a history major is working as a historian (working at museums, national archives, etc.) or as a philosopher (professor, author, etc.).

Hence why OP mentioned CS majors are having a hard time…when at my kid’s school, 50% of the CS grads work in consulting or VC or PE or hedge funds.

If someone asked a history major if they work in their field and they say yes, I work in banking on Wall Street…most would scratch their head over that answer.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 19:49     Subject: Which majors finding employment in their field
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A better question might be: which students are finding gainful employment in jobs that are better than they would have gotten had they not attended college?

Many many students do not work “in their field”. I never did, not even close. But I’m doing great and liberal arts problem solving and critical thinking skills have helped me.


STEM degrees also teach critical thinking skills, btw.


Many stem degrees fall under the liberal arts category!
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 19:33     Subject: Which majors finding employment in their field
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:At graduation? Hearing CS is having a harder time.


Harder time than what?

Since your post specifically says a job “in their field”…I guarantee you that every humanities, physics, math, etc. major is having an infinitely harder time because last I saw there aren’t many history, philosophy, physicist jobs available (nor were there ever).


The field for history and philosophy is any field that needs people who can think critically, read large amounts, analyze it, and communicate findings.
Anonymous
Post 06/09/2025 18:37     Subject: Which majors finding employment in their field
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Anonymous wrote:Education. There’s teacher shortages so it’s fairly easy to get a job, but it might not be in a good district.


My DS graduated with a degree in Math and Secondary Ed and received a job offer within a week of his very first interview. He wanted to work in a private high school and was offered a much higher salary than he was expecting - he accepted the job.

Yep. Math teachers are in high demand. Too bad we have a hard time convincing young people who are good at math to become teachers.

That would be my DS. Superstar in math, dual CS math major, but they do not want to teach. I don't blame them. Who wants to deal with out of control teens. If the kids were well behaved, wanted to learn, and the parents weren't helicopters, maybe DS would be more likely to want to teach. But, today, teachers have to deal with too much: out of control teens, and parents, and admins.

And I'm not even a teacher but I shudder when I think about teaching.

American education would improve overnight if parents could accept that their special little star isn't perfect and is often an issue for other students and their education. We desperately need to bring back standards and FAILURE. Most A+ students are not actually at mastery level across subjects, but the standards have fallen to hell.