The colossal presumptive mistake is is to buy into the narrative that a college degree of any sort will guarantee financial security. That somehow dollars and cents equate to personal fulfillment. I remember some years ago reading that the highest rate of suicide amongst professionals was amongst accountants and dentists of all things. On the other hand some majors don’t have any practical application in our technocratic capitalistic world. I have a master’s degree in philosophy and about the only thing that’s good for is rolling up to see the front of the unemployment line. Hence my sales career. But counseling my children especially my 13 year old son, I’m trying to warn him off from buying into the lie that a college degree is the be all end all. A nice trade like HVAC the standard chain of command in the corporate world. Puts bread on the table and allows one to be his own boss. Owner knows that most plumbers and electricians make more money than most college grads. The other elephant in the room is that our education system has been comprehensively hijacked by the leftists and they are nothing but breeding grounds for future communists. Just look at the generation z voting patterns.
There are degrees in Hard Sciences which will yield rewarding and remunerative careers.
Then there are degrees in “hobbies”. Most of those are in “the arts/studies”
I don't see it online. It may be replaced with Success Without College.
Do a search for "Skip College Start Your Own Business". There's lots of links. A decade ago this wasn't a trend.
Perhaps this info will help your son. I'd have raised my now grown children a bit differently if I'd known of the non-college alternative.
English major here, with minors in Classics and Business. There was a time when a liberal arts major would have been the most reasonable and useful preparation for a career in law or government. Sadly, with the corruption of the liberal arts, apart from a very small number of great books and/or conservative Catholic institutions, it’s downright dangerous to one’s mental and emotional health to major in anything but the servile arts, such as accounting or engineering.
Plumber and HVAC are also some of the most unpleasant jobs, crawling under houses and into attics.