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1 posted on 11/29/2012 8:48:06 AM PST by Kaslin
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When I was in college every student I knew in the School of Education had been on the verge of flunking out. It and the School of Social Services were the dumping grounds for dum dums.


2 posted on 11/29/2012 8:51:45 AM PST by pgkdan (We are witnessing the modern sack of Rome. The barbarians have taken over.)
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How much do underwater basket weavers make these days?


3 posted on 11/29/2012 8:52:06 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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I’m done with my MBA, can I sell it?


5 posted on 11/29/2012 8:53:30 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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Hey, I bet those degrees in Womyn’s, Queer, and various minority studies pay exceptionally well. (snicker)


6 posted on 11/29/2012 8:53:30 AM PST by driftless2
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I would call those rates of pay “not a bad living,” if you don’t have a lot of debt, and especially if you’re in a two-earner marriage. As the article points out, many of these can at least find jobs, either because they’re at low levels of the leviathan state (school teacher, social worker) or because they’re useful skills (cooking) or part of the leisure/entertainment blob (athletic trainer).


7 posted on 11/29/2012 8:57:06 AM PST by Tax-chick (Are you getting ready for the Advent Kitteh?)
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Child and Family Studies
Formally known as parenthood.
8 posted on 11/29/2012 8:57:23 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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The first 5 of those college degrees listed lead to government jobs. A 40k/yr median income salary at full time employment with benefits funded by taxpayers is pretty attractive to a jobless liberal arts graduate in a nation with a real world unemployment rate of 20%.


10 posted on 11/29/2012 8:59:34 AM PST by TADSLOS (No need to watch the movie "Idiocracy". We're living it.)
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My son studied astronomy . . . well, he took up space.

Medieval Plumbing degrees aren’t too well received either.


11 posted on 11/29/2012 9:00:59 AM PST by laweeks
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2012 Worst Paying College Degrees...?

Federal Government Ethics...


15 posted on 11/29/2012 9:03:14 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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The five on the lowest end of that scale usually wind up in government jobs, so salary is misleading as they rack up tons of benefits not accounted for in salary.


17 posted on 11/29/2012 9:04:38 AM PST by kevkrom (If a wise man has an argument with a foolish man, the fool only rages or laughs...)
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Keep your child out of college for two years starting next September. Why are you working two jobs and missing vacations to saddle your beloved child with tens of thousands of dollars of debt? Keep them home. The universities will laugh like Snuffleupagus did over the Hostess workers, but you decrease the student population by 50% for a couple of years and the universities have to lower tuition.


19 posted on 11/29/2012 9:05:00 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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"According to our research, people in these majors typically believe their work makes the world a better place," says PayScale’s lead analyst Katie Bardaro.

I can believe that for the Special Education category. If they are going to devote their lives helping children with various disabilities, then God Bless them. Tough work, and appreciated work.

21 posted on 11/29/2012 9:07:47 AM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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bkmk


25 posted on 11/29/2012 9:12:26 AM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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This story was floating around FR a month ago, I think. There are soooooooo many degrees missing from the list ... all of the PC ones.


27 posted on 11/29/2012 9:14:45 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Happy 10th FR birthday to meeeeeeeeee)
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Education is an odd major. If you want to be a teacher, you would normally get a degree in some field, and then get a masters in Education.

I guess if you want to teach general elementary school, you’d get an education degree.

Interestingly, while education in general pays low for a college degree, the unemployment rate for people with education degrees is very low.

5 of the top 20 employment fields for POPULAR majorgs are education degrees; all are higher than civil engineering.

BTW, 5 of the top 7 fields are medical; the other two are agriculture and industrial production. I would NOT have guessed those last two.

My field, electrical engineering, came in 25th, tied with math and environmental science. Behind civil engineering, which in my day was the engineering field for people who couldn’t pass real engineering courses..... :-)

I can say that because my wife is a civil engineer.

BTW,the top 5 employment majors aren’t popular ones. And they include computer science, which I would have thought would be a very popular major and would not have good employment numbers because I thought there would be a glut of programmers.

Astrophysics/astronomy 0%
Geological and geophysics engineering 0%
Physical science 2.5%
Geosciences 3.2%
Math/computer science 3.5%

I wonder why every astronomy major gets a job?


28 posted on 11/29/2012 9:16:55 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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How did they arrive at those figures? Those salaries are pretty good by local standards. The University of Kentucky, for example, pay less than any of those salaries above for Research Analysts or Principle Lab Techs with Master’s degrees in scientific fields.


29 posted on 11/29/2012 9:21:17 AM PST by Renfield (Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
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How about salaries and employment rates for African-American Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer (their term, not mine) Studies, etc.?


30 posted on 11/29/2012 9:23:09 AM PST by July4 (Remember the price paid for your freedom.)
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"According to our research, people in these majors typically believe their work makes the world a better place,"

Not listed is degrees in theology. Some of these people takes vows of poverty, outright. Others are doomed to poverty by their choice. Rarely do you become the pastor of a mega church.

31 posted on 11/29/2012 9:23:09 AM PST by oldbrowser (Put Obama in check, now.)
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How much do poetry majors pull in a year?


38 posted on 11/29/2012 9:36:49 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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I wonder what a degree in transgendered studies pays?


43 posted on 11/29/2012 9:45:46 AM PST by Catholic Canadian
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