Well, we need a study of “real” graduates vs. those of “Studies” programs/degrees.
Exactly correct. Get a degree in math, science, engineering, medical etc. you have a job waiting. All my degrees were such.
“Well, we need a study of “real” graduates vs. those of “Studies” programs/degrees.”
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Just not as many openings these days for those with PHDs in underwater basket-weaving and transitional gender studies.
This is an outdated talking point. The fact of the matter is STEM degrees aren’t a safe bet anymore, nothing is. H1B visas are crowding out STEM, Legal, and Medical professions and nobody is acknowledging it. The GOP pretends this is “high skilled immigration we need” when it is simply hollowing out the middle class even further.
My own brother-in-law had his entire engineering department dissolved so that they could replace everyone with Indians and Chinese.
With Indian and Communist Chinese H1Bs and H4EADs stealing the market from “real” majors, that statement is almost farcical. Real majors can’t get jobs. They can’t get past the cronyism, nepotism abc racism of lying cheating Indians with fake unverifiable degrees and employment history
I got a degree in business management (useless) from Pace.
I just answered job ads looking for recent grads and I found one pretty quickly and a good one too.
That was 1990.
But that was in NYC and Pace had a decent reputation so maybe that was why.
Guy told me he chose my resume out of 4,000. Said he thought I had integrity. (got that from a resume?)
That was the highlight of my business career and it was 29 years ago!! :)
4 years for a Bachelors Degree, 2 more for a Masters, then 2-3 for your PhD in “Black Lesbian Dance Theory for White Transgender Men” is not going to get you a job. Too many degrees are only good for teaching others a useless knowledge base that accomplishes nothing other than money being spent, debt incurred, and a job working 24 hours a week at Starbucks.
Do I cry? Hell no. They chose the easy way and easy usually means not much of a reward at the end.
No one is responding to my daughter. She graduated with a BS in statistics with almost a 4.0 too.
I’m getting concerned. At least, she can go to grad school.
Exactly - them Lib Arts degrees are just expensive vacation stubs with no real value...
I have 4 daughters. Three have graduated from college with useful degrees. The fourth will also. Someone has to pay those loans. The rest who have graduated can get off their ass and figure it out. I paid mine, now you pay yours.