My niece obtained some kind of an art degree and is now very bitter that she cannot make much money. Colleges and universities should have to declare data about each discipline: the probability of getting hired in that discipline and what someone can expect to be paid immediately after graduation. Otherwise, they are just deceiving people into thinking that every discipline has some huge demand in the real world.
My stepson majored in English. He now has a great job at UPS...driving a delivery truck.
“Colleges and universities should have to declare data about each discipline: the probability of getting hired in that discipline and what someone can expect to be paid immediately after graduation. ”
I went to a career day seminar, expecting all that information to be there. It was woefully pathetic.
My plan was to major in physics. I was in my first year and since that seminar didn’t give me any real information, I went to the physics department and asked for starting salary of physicists. And then I went to the various engineering departments and asked them. Since the coursework was about the same difficulty, I became an engineer.
Although I agree with you that universities should supply that information, students also need to take some initiative. If they can’t even figure out how much they will make when they graduate and exactly what kind of work they will do, they really don’t even belong in college.