While you may not be using that knowledge after five years, good luck getting hired in the first place. Companies need a way to filter applicants, and most use college for entry level hires.
That said, I’m taking engineering. There are an insane amount of business degrees, that one now needs an MBA to distinguish oneself.
It’s degree inflation, 50 years ago, a small part of the population got four-years degrees. Now a four-year college degree is equivalent to a high-school degree from 50 years ago.....And a post-graduate degree is equivalent to a undergrad degree from that same time.
I am aware of that. It’s bullshit too.
I was a very high level corporate officer in a top 20 financial services company. Our best managers were either internally promoted front line folks, or former NCOs. If they could grasp the math required for the budget process they were golden.
The rest was teachable or experiential.
Sure the corporate finance guys required different skill sets and training. But, for the most part, your average 24 year old kid getting out of the average state school, would have been better suited for a manufacturing job. If we hadn’t sent them all away. So we send them to “school”, teach them PowerPoint, and give them “service” jobs that are scripted and automated to the point where they are not “allowed” to think on their own.
And we do all of this for $45,000 a year, including room and board.
As parents we are fools for buying into it—and allowing our kids to buy into it. And the kids will spend the next 20 years trying to figure out why it did not work the way it was promised.