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Originally Posted by Pete
It all depends on what you want to do with the degree. Doesn't really mater if you're just learning for learning's sake.
This is dated from 2011 but does cover some of the major degree fields.
"The College Majors That Do Best in the Job Market"
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/20...he-job-market/
"...The major that produced the most graduates in jobs that required degrees was education and teaching; 71.1 percent of this discipline’s alumni had jobs for which a bachelor’s was a prerequisite. This is probably not surprising, since so many of these grads became teachers.
Engineering had the next-best track record, with 69.4 percent of its graduates placed in college labor market jobs.
The majors with the worst placement records were area studies (44.7 percent in degree-requiring jobs) and humanities (45.4 percent)...." |
Interesting point. Around 2000 my sister in law's sister graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in Middle Eastern studies that included learning Arabic. Everyone told her that she would never find a job with an education like that. I sh*t you not, a few months after the 9/11 attacks some folks who work for a U.S. government agency came and
knocked on her door.