I have an acquaintance that graduated, made good money in a financial industry until she had kids and became a SAHM...she is now in and out of rehab and homeless.

You never know where life will lead you.

Honestly, most of the time, your degree is one line on your resume. It doesn't guarantee you a successful life.

Anonymous wrote:I'm an art/dance major. A lot of people think my degrees are useless, yet I raise a family doing what I love. One person's idea of uselessness is another person's means of living and happiness.

I have a child who might major in dance. It is the one thing she truly enjoys. School has never been easy for her (ADHD and anxiety).

Now, I'm not sending her to Julliard or NYU full pay like some will (I LOL at a lot of the tuition pages on the college websites I have visited), but all I want is for her to get a 4 year degree. We're mostly looking at the VA state schools - Radford and ODU are likely her top contenders.

She's not really planning to be a professional dancer, but she may go into some sort of OT/PT type job eventually (some of those need higher degrees/certifications) OR teach/open her own business.

I've changed direction 3 times in my 20-ish years out of school. My husband got an engineering degree pt as an adult after spending time in the military. Your decisions in your late teens/early 20s are not necessarily who you will become.

Anonymous wrote:Universities are a place to learn. You pick what you want to learn about and they teach you. That doesn't mean what you want to learn about is needed for a good paying job. Its up to you to choose a major that qualifies you for the job/income you want.

i want to learn basket weaving.
How come there's no major for that

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Anonymous wrote:Off the top of my head, I can think of multiple schools that offer 4+1 MBA programs (right after undergrad!!). Then, there’s stand-alone majors offered at many schools like criminology, cybersecurity, criminal justice, entrepreneurship, pharmacology, and insurance.

Go back to the basics, people.

Those are all super useful-but some schools have a special major for "athletes" and gpa-pads for grad school. At my school "African-american Studies", "Women's Studies", "Communications", and "Art History" were the ones with recs of "Construction Management" and "Symphonic Masterworks". Ironically, "Construction Management" was one of the best classes there if you were one of the few that showed up and listened.

The UW-Madison school of Human Ecology:

Offers a “personal finance” major

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Anonymous wrote:I'm an art/dance major. A lot of people think my degrees are useless, yet I raise a family doing what I love. One person's idea of uselessness is another person's means of living and happiness.

Dance major at college doesn't sound right at all.

Dance should be an extra club activity.

And who will teach dance as this “extra club activity”? Arts should be part of any core curriculum.

Kind of like we don't have a soccer major.

Anonymous wrote:Off the top of my head, I can think of multiple schools that offer 4+1 MBA programs (right after undergrad!!). Then, there’s stand-alone majors offered at many schools like criminology, cybersecurity, criminal justice, entrepreneurship, pharmacology, and insurance.

Go back to the basics, people.

Those are all super useful-but some schools have a special major for "athletes" and gpa-pads for grad school. At my school "African-american Studies", "Women's Studies", "Communications", and "Art History" were the ones with recs of "Construction Management" and "Symphonic Masterworks". Ironically, "Construction Management" was one of the best classes there if you were one of the few that showed up and listened.

Universities are a place to learn. You pick what you want to learn about and they teach you. That doesn't mean what you want to learn about is needed for a good paying job. Its up to you to choose a major that qualifies you for the job/income you want.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm an art/dance major. A lot of people think my degrees are useless, yet I raise a family doing what I love. One person's idea of uselessness is another person's means of living and happiness.

Dance major at college doesn't sound right at all.

Dance should be an extra club activity.

And who will teach dance as this “extra club activity”? Arts should be part of any core curriculum.

Anonymous wrote:I'm an art/dance major. A lot of people think my degrees are useless, yet I raise a family doing what I love. One person's idea of uselessness is another person's means of living and happiness.

Dance major at college doesn't sound right at all.

Dance should be an extra club activity.

I'm an art/dance major. A lot of people think my degrees are useless, yet I raise a family doing what I love. One person's idea of uselessness is another person's means of living and happiness.

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Anonymous wrote:Off the top of my head, I can think of multiple schools that offer 4+1 MBA programs (right after undergrad!!). Then, there’s stand-alone majors offered at many schools like criminology, cybersecurity, criminal justice, entrepreneurship, pharmacology, and insurance.

Go back to the basics, people.

Schools offer classes in what students want. You'll notice how few offer Western Civ., Latin, Greek - dead white male stuff anymore.

great job being a racist yourself

amazing how you were able to tie white males to programs of study in a purely racist manner. What will you have to complain about when you dont have white males to pin all your failures on?

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Anonymous wrote:Some of those are acually not examples of useless degrees.

However yes there are tons of useless degrees
Ahteletes, Legacies, URMs, First Gen, LGBTQ, etc. all need a major, too.

Excuse me? I have no idea what this even means.

Ah yes gay people and minorities aren’t smart enough for “real” majors. DCUM keeps sinking lower and lower.

I think there is literally one person on this forum who posts this crap over and over and seems to be under the delusion that there is ANY preferential treatment for LGBTQ+ in admissions.

Anonymous wrote:I know someone with a BS, MA, and PHD in Leadership. They're working in a Coordinator position at a university in their mid thirties. I'd say it's been fairly useless.

And? What benefits do they get? How stable is their job?

Sounds great to me.

Anonymous wrote:I know someone with a BS, MA, and PHD in Leadership. They're working in a Coordinator position at a university in their mid thirties. I'd say it's been fairly useless.

In the scheme of things you may be right, but the position may also require a Phd. Universities seem to be filled with PhDs doing jobs that shouldn't require phd