I am reminded of a co-worker’s issue from twenty years ago. His daughter was two years into a liberal arts degree deal and woke up at the end of a summer visit to a friend who’d already graduated and gotten the insider prospective of job prospects. She decided the degree was worthless (as dad had said before). Now? The trouble is that about 50-percent of what she took for the two years wouldn’t do any good toward another degree. You can figure about $18,000 wasted on nothing.
She moved on, got into business-related classes and it was simply written down by dad as a loss. At least she didn’t wrap up four years and discover the worthless nature of the degree then.
I noticed recently that these city or urban tourist boards that have popped up....are mostly made up with graduates with either psychological or acting degrees. At least they are gainfully employed and paying taxes, and maybe there is some type of field for their employment future.
The people I look at....are the ones with women’s studies or ethnic studies....who have no real employment future at all....then end up at some airport car rental shop as a manager (a field that used to be reserved for folks with a high school diploma).
A friend of mine who works in HR was sent a package of resumes from a major east coast university. They were resumes of their graduating MBA candidates.
Virtually every one of these kids has focused their studies on “green sustainability” or somesuch. Not a one of them appeared to be employable as anything but an EPA regulator.
Where these are required "diversity" courses, the college has a few jobs for PhD's teaching them. What a deal.