The problem with that mindset is that it fails to take into consideration that any degree is of some value. A great many jobs out there are just looking for anyone with a bachelors degree. A recent Forbes (I think) article had some shocking statistics about people working professionally outside of their degreed fields.
Can you find a link to that article? Thanks.
I don't know that I'd think a degree in feminist studies has any value except as an operative for the Democrat party. ;)
A friend of mine took an informal poll from his graduating class of electrical engineers, some 30 in all. After 6 years out of college, only 6 were still engineers. The rest were cops, dairy farmers, back in school for law degrees or MBAs, teachers and the like. I have degrees in philisophy and economics and have been a computer programmer/sys admin for 25 years. The logic training was very useful ;)
I also saw a story in my local newspaper last year that Hertz Rent-A-Car was looking forward to hiring 6-8000 people with newly minted BAs as "customer service" (read counter) people. Can you imagine paying 60K for a college degree and working as counter help for Hertz ? That's a job that high school graduates should be doing. College degrees now have the same value as a high school degree of 20 years ago.
That is very true. When hiring for my department - for positions that require working with numbers and no small amount of customer service - I give heavy preference to people with degrees. I have a gal with a degree in communications and a guy with a degree in English Lit. They are my best workers; the most independent of the bunch. The one's without degrees are clock in/clock out types.