Yes, this lawsuit is silly, but is a degree in IT so worthless? An IT major appears to combine programming with business. I don't know; I'm just asking an honest question. I've been out of college for a long time, and within the next few years, my own children should be starting college.
All these jobs are out-sourced to India and China. We are now the third world.
I have other questions: (1) How restrictive is her search - what is she selling herself as? where is she willing to go?, etc. (2) Does she just have the degree or can she boast some good job experience? The son-in-law parlayed internship with Harris into a great 10-year hitch as a computer engineer. His current employer is into nav and sonar and such.
This is where four-year degree programs differentiate themselves from these two-year certificates. Nowhere on her curriculum are courses that demonstrate proficiency in communications' skills--no English, business writing, etc.; there are programming courses, but no courses in math or logic.
There are also very specific technologies referenced in her coursework: Oracle and Cisco. This is OK, those are very widely-used throughout industry. But what if a potential employer is a SQL Server shop? My point is, sometimes it's better to be more of a generalist--you understand the concepts and can apply them just about anywhere.
Just a few observations. But I do agree with many of the other posters - there's more to this story than a woman who has a degree, but no job offers. Maybe she has no communication skills, and is a poor interviewer. Whose fault is that? Maybe she's received offers, but is unwilling to relocate, or won't accept less than an ideal salary and benefits.
Well, an IT degree isn’t worthless ... but look at the courses that she’s taken - this is little more than an introduction to a number of computing-related topics.
I work as an IT senior consultant in a large chemical company (my educational background is engineering). We have rather few IT degrees in our IT department - mostly they get out of IT or wind up in management (one of my ex-bosses had an IT degree). Generally, they’re not prepared to compete with Computer Science majors in programming or other highly technical aspects of computing.
My son has a BS/MS in Computer Science from two highly rated colleges. While his more advanced math classes were in different subjects than mine, he took just as much math as I did in an engineering curriculum. Much of it looked downright difficult, too.
My son took the software route and my daughter, the electrical engineer, took the hardware route. Those are both rather HARD compared to an IT undergrad and much more specialized - but the employment possibilites are different as night and day.