I read somewhere that the best degree is petroleum engineer. Go figure.
This is not a problem. By the end of Obama’s second term, people will be directed to whatever degree is needed by the state. And all pay will be the same thanks to the pay czar.
good!
they were all degree mills to begin with—now let all hands in on the scam!
;)
One of my girlfriends is a personal trainner but she told me she made more working at Hooters.
LOL, my wife’s undergraduate falls into lowest paying category and mine the highest.
Finance major in progress, I make more at my internship than I did as a full time GM for a hospitality company. I also enjoy laughing at the social work and interdisciplinary studies people... I think they should rename the interdisciplinary studies degree “I don’t excel in anything” degree.
From the article:
“If you’d rather end up with one of the best-paying college degrees, you’ll have to major in something that requires a lot of math classes.”
You could take any one of the “20 worst” degrees listed, add math, and make more money.
surely African American Studies belongs on that list.
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This made me think of Bullwinkle ‘s alma mater
Whatsamatta U.
Money and salary is not everything in life.
Without watching this or reading anything, I will guess the worst degrees are the ones not in business, engineering, or law schools.
There are very good reasons for English, Philosophy, Art, and degrees like them, but they are not going to make you money.
Number 1 is child and family studies. When my parents were raising a family, that “degree” consisted of reading books written by and recommended by doctors and reading monthly magazine articles. In short, mothers and fathers used to need little or no help to raise children.
Now we apparently have “experts” to help us ... experts like my neighbors down the street whose little tykes are hellions on wheels, who are completely undisciplined, and have no respect for authority. One of them tossed chairs around his kindergarten class and tried to bite his teacher on the behind. He’s going to be the oldest kid in his kindergarten class next year at seven and probably the year after that, too.
His mother blames the schools for putting too much pressure on the little tykes!!
My prediction is those two kids are eventually going to pick on the wrong kid and will have both their a$$e$ whupped ... and I know the kid who is most likely to do it. He is protective of his younger siblings and eventually, he will kick their butts ... and I will sell popcorn to the event.
looks like they overstated the earning power of “studies” majors, since most will never work in their field. Since the didn’t average in all the zero’s, the real stats are even worse.
Most Womyns Studies degree holders work as waitresses, bartenders, store clerks or secretaries in non-profits efectively earning nothing from their degrees.
There are a lot of good reasons to pick the poorly paying majors.
1. Like maybe they are what you are good at and passionate about. I’ve tried working in a field I was only so-so about because I wanted the paycheck. Not happy, and not very good at it, either. Went back to law school, and made better money and did something I was better suited for.
2. You might use the knowledge even if you aren’t making money with it. I was a liberal arts/multi-disliplinary major (international relations), math-lite person, and I’m happy to say I use my knowledge all the time. I’m a stay-at-home mom, and my kids get the benefit of my eclectic knowledge every day. Pay? zip. Benefits? huge.
BTW, I paid off my student loans before I got married, so I’d say the math-less career was at least financially neutral, not negative.
3. Maybe some of these majors are good second careers, like the engineers who decide to go into teaching. And, at our church, we really appreciate the clergy who had a “real-life” career before going into the seminary.