Posted on 02/27/2015 7:53:40 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In many fields, graduate degrees offer distinct benefits for your extra years in school.
Employees armed with a graduate education are often a more attractive hire and can make a higher salary than colleagues who have only a bachelor's degree.
However, for some industries the benefits of going to graduate school are comparatively low and don't justify the extra investment.
Using the recent "Hard Times" report from the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce, we examined salary and unemployment data of experienced college graduates and experienced holders of graduate degrees. These are workers whose ages range from 35 to 54.
For roughly 50 fields, we calculated how much more money a graduate degree would bring and the difference in unemployment rates for those with a post-college degree. These figures were then combined to determine which graduate degrees were the most "useless" — basically, which give you the smallest boost in salary and employment.
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That’s a good reason to stay away from degrees.
Of course it is a good subject to study, but people need to learn practical skills. Something to use to make a living.
Oh, I doubt that. But at least you'll learn the functions of your social circle.
Perhaps you are at a loss. The study of wisdom (philo-sophia) is a genuine skill.
Humanities majors have a broader base of knowledge, so we are outside the box thinkers. That is a very valuable skill in almost any organization.
We’ll agree to disagree. Of course they’re different or they would be the same. I never said they were exactly the same, but they are not completely different. Art would be completely different. Journalism would be completely different.
Politics not a practical skill?
I have not claimed to be a sciencist. But engineers work in a hard science. Our degrees are science degrees, it even says so on our diplomas.
An engineer is someone who can make for a dollar what any fool could make for two. – Alan Kay
That cleared it all up! Thanks!
Bingo! :-)
I have come across exactly one that was worth a crap. I’ve never met your sister though so I’m sure there are at least two on the planet :-)
Because the article assumes that the person seeking the graduate degree is deferring employment for two years while paying the cost of the graduate program. If we look at chemical engineering, for example, the staring salary with a BS degree is $104K and the starting salary with a MS degree is $118k. In order to earn the additional $14k, the person seeking the MS degree gives up ~$215k in income and incurs educational expenses ranging from $30k to $100k or more depending upon the MS program. By the time he earns his MS, he is already $300k behind where he would be if he had gone directly into the workforce with a BS, and the guy with the BS now has two years' experience and is making the same as the starting salary for the guy with MS.
Because they like it.
Why do they like it?
For one, it feeds their ego.
How does it feed their ego?
They get to hang out with people who do things like they do.
That seems practical enough, don't you think?
Yes, freedom of association.
So the question is, why do taxes go to pay for someone's hobby?
Because hobbies, if profitable, are taxable.
That's off-topic. I'd like to know what is useless. If you want to do something useless, is there a law against that?
Yes, there can be. You have to play by the rules of the community.
Not the community of philosophers?
Right, the rules of the world community.
Are there other reasons for majoring in philosophy?
Sure, a thousand and one. Sometimes its a way to exercise a love of wisdom.
Is that useless?
The love of wisdom is very worthwhile. More precious than rubies. But it can be done without a degree.
I see. That must be why obtaining a degree becomes more a practical requirement for access to power, honor, and wealth. These are not the supreme reason why we should do things.
That depends on your ego.
What's an ego?
It's an word used by people that want to rid themselves of the idea of human nature.
Political science is worthless.
It should be called “Lying 101”
Hey Marie Harf has a poli sci degree and look at her salary, LOL
In my experience, they don't even have theoretical skills.
Sometimes I can't believe the people I work with overseas.
One has to worship well enough to keep from lying. That's why Socrates was convinced there were punishments and rewards due to each.
And yet upper management has drank the kool-aid that they can save money with these mutts. I cannot count the lost man hours we have by having to fix what our offshore component did overnight. Glad we 86’ed them last year.
Globalization is a cancer.
A Mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.
A Physicist will find the cat.
A Scientist will name the cat.
However, an Engineer will teach it tricks.
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