10 Most Worthless College Majors

Googles things all day!

 

Well, at least I caught your import. ;-)

 

I used to work there doing Linux Helpdesk but that was 6 years ago.

 

Helpdesk; not a fun job.

 

There are worse jobs. It pays well in some areas and it can be very challenging (in a good way). That said, I don't do it any more. I'm stuck in customer service at this point.

 

I feel that I am insulted as well, my Master degree in Tele"communications" from Southern Methodist University does not make to the list. It is communication, but it is distance.

 

Higher levels of math look more like philosphy than what we know as math. Certain teachers can make some math classes have nothing to do with numbers. I've once seen an instructor taking a theoretical/proof-based approach when teaching linear algebra that was so insanely difficult it would make grown men cry. I've never gone super high in math but once you get to classes like complex analysis, nothing is even real anymore...everything you do is 100% imaginary.

But anyway, I agree. Math probably has better job prospects with the BS/BA being the terminal degree and will get someone into any Masters engineering program. But philosophy majors score perfectly on LSAT so they end up in good law schools.

 

Funny I have the same degree as you....

 

LOL! Well, I'm...uh...convinced...maybe.

 

Yep - abstract thinkers seem to do quite well in LSATs indeed.

 

Your friend did this BECAUSE of the degree? Of course not.

 

The wife has one of those "worthless" degrees (a BA in Humanities from UMUC).

It was not an impediment to getting a decent job post-graduation.

 

What about the old days, before electives and majors? Everyone at a college received the same liberal education. They went on to be lawyers, engineers, businessmen, bankers. College taught them to think, read, write, debate, etc. Career education came after college, not during it. Read Frederick Rudolph's "Curriculum: A History of the American Undergraduate Course of Study Since 1636." The elective and major systems were the beginning of the dumbing-down of higher education.

 

in the mid-1800s engineers in the UK became qualified through apprenticeships, guilds, and professional institutions. Few engineers actually had degrees.

 

I'm finishing up an MA Apologetics at BIOLA (distance; limited on campus time), and one of my classmates did her BA in philosophy. Made me most jealous! She did it at her local college/univ. while living at home. No need to go to BIOLA (at $30-35k/year) for philosophy, imho.

 

Author Allan Bloom makes the same case in "Closing of the American Mind." University has become trade school, whereas it previously taught one how to think, through a good education rooted in the classics. No more. No one has the time. Now it's all about getting a job, and the degree that will get it done. Case in point....the article that started this thread.

 

...but was it relevant to acquiring the job?

 

You're using my degree? Sweet, I want to demand 50% of the tuition, which equivalent to $19K (cash only 'cause IRS). If you don't pay me, then wait until I purchase a JD from Glenn (Must University) before suing you. j/k lol