Worst-Paying College Degrees

Yahoo ^ | 10 May, 2010 | Charles Purdy

[LiberConservative]

My ex is a social worker with a bachelor’s. After 20 years she was making what I as making as a junior engineer. (50K) She has friends with Master’s and they all make 6 figures. Your niece will probably do just fine.

[Clemenza]

Median salary for a teacher in New Jersey is 75,000, not including benefits. The pension is quite generous too.

[throwback]

Yeah, but he’ll be able to debate the existence of the burger with his fellow flippers. I have a nephew that has a doctorate in Philosophy too. We don’t talk much. I stopped at a 200 level logic course, but I can fix my own lawn mower.

[laker_dad]

LOL... Dude! Wait, what?

[Osage Orange]

One of my kids is getting a BS in Para-Legal Studies...

She will get a job easy enough....probably pay 6 figures fairly fast.

The other went to a nice expensive school to be a "hair stylist" she will probably make more money than both my other kid and I both. Ha!!

The difference is she can make what she wants to make as a free lancer........

Crazy

[Kozy]

How about those two great degrees, Woman’s Studies and African American Studies?

They’re probably on the rolling on the ground laughing list.

[secret garden]

I don’t see Women’s Studies at the bottom of that list and shouldn’t it be? Also, I get a kick out of the teachers who get doctorates in education so they can play principal and get called “Dr” for the world’s easiest PhD.

[donaldo]

How about a PhD in Postmodern Transgender Perspectives?

[CFIIIMEIATP737]

I think studying women is wonderful. I’ve been doing it for almost fifty years and have found it very rewarding. Confusing at times, but rewarding.

[secret garden]

Many of them stayed in school for advanced degrees since the job market was so weak when they first graduated. It has not improved and now they have even more debt.

[righttackle44]

The six most used words of a music major: “Would you like fries with that?”

[throwback]

Stepdaughter is stylist. She makes a killing, but she does have a natural talent. Now if she could only manage her money, she wouldn’t be borderline bankrupt.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

He was conceived in Greely, Co. That should tell you a lot about my cousin and his wife!

[wally_bert]

Didn't Patrick Swayze in Roadhouse have a PhD?

[savedbygrace]

This is a misleading article. None of the links take you to anything close to what the article title claims.

[Retired Greyhound]

My son got an Anthropology Degree.

From Berkeley.

Works at a surf shop.

[Wooly]

Power Plant Operator (cannot learn it in college, requires US Navy, Coast Guard or OJT) Starting at about $45,000, Mid-Career $80,000 (Average with overtime $100,000 +)
Who needs to go listen to a bunch of self-impressed Liberal Professors)

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

As with any lib, I hope she is a miserable failure.

Nice.

I always like to wish ill on people I've never met. < /sarc>

"There are two types of people in the world; those who lump people into two groups, and those that don't."

[Osage Orange]

I know too many folks that have ED degrees...that paid a lot of money for them...and hate the job...or are out of a job.

Even the luke warm moderate libs hate the job in the big urban areas.....but they know who supports them. The Unions and and local government...so they vote their way.

That said...I know some un-employed "teachers"...that won't move...and are mooching off of family...because they can, and they don't want to sacrifice.

[Jim Noble]

its 2010 report on the earning power of bachelor's degrees

False concept.

The degree earns zero.

Degree holders? That depends.