I’m not asking what’s the worst/one you respect the least. I’m asking what’s the least likely to help you get work.
There are actually lots of surveys and studies done on this subject by schools, governmental, and financial institutions. They all have a pretty heavy stake in what degrees loans are being handed out for and whether that person will be able to repay it. There’s really no need to speculate because there’s lots of data out there.
The NY Fed found people who earned diplomas in criminal justice are the most affected, with a 67.2 percent underemployment rate. They were followed by majors in performing arts at 62.3 percent, medical technicians at 57.9 percent, liberal arts at 56.5 percent, and anthropology at 55.9 percent.
Yeah I’m a nurse and this article tracks. I get callbacks on applications within a week of submission or sometimes same day. Are they good jobs? Maybe. But there’s no shortage of them.
But this article also highlights something I’ve always said about cops, whose degrees are basically worthless according to this article. A degree isn’t necessary for their job while it’s literally illegal for me to not have one as well as a license that can be revoked if I fuck up bad enough.
Cops imo have a similar level of responsibility if not for health specifically definitely for safety. They should have to be licensed and that license should be overseen by a public safety board that can remove it. You should be able to maybe get a 3-6 month certificate or something to ticket people for parking in handicapped spots or noise disturbances but you should need at LEAST an associates to carry a gun in the protection of public safety, preferably a bachelors and in addition to martial arts it should cover everything from law, basic / developmental psych, basic first aid and how to identify when a disturbance is probably being caused by a medical problem that needs eval after it’s been safely contained etc.
I do actually believe there is a need for public safety officials who can show up and stop people from injuring each other but we really need to up our expectations for ethics and competency.
Yeah, the average length of training in the US for officers is 6 months. That means there’s places that require more and places that require less. There are almost 20,000 individual departments in the US with varying rules and requirements. In Germany you can’t even carry a gun on the force without a 4 year degree.
Some fields fluctuate… Like, kids hear that engineers are in demand or whatever, and sign up to uni for the job prospects, but so to heaps of others, so 5 years later when they’re done, the market’s already stabilised and now there’s an oversupply…
Probably not most of those fields you mentioned, but it’s still something to keep in mind… Don’t pick something that’s only recently gone up in demand.
Woohoo I’m the in the 54.1% of employed anthropology majors! Not that my work has anything to do with it anyway.
Yeah, I knew plenty of data exists and I think it has a place in this thread. I’m also curious to hear people’s opinions on here. Never know whose an HR manager or hiring person. I appreciate the info you provided! I’m particularly suprised by the medical tech one. I guess I always think of those as certs or associates level. CJ is kinda surprising too.
That reads like you prefer anecdotes over data.
I want to have a conversation about a thing. If I just wanted data I’d google it. Having the data is good to help facilitate the conversation but this is an ask post. It’s an open ended questions that encourages discourse.
Makes sense, engagement is often the point of social media. 👍
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This one…
A Christian college’s courses for a “Marriage and Motherhood” bachelors degree - https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b32d0328-f530-4a66-a21b-b464d9c12f31.jpeg
Philosophy.
It’s good as a first degree for some fields that require more than one degree. Philosophy to Law is pretty common, since philosophy forces you to try to think of scenarios in different frameworks, as well as deconstruct arguments and viewpoints.
Philosophy on it’s own, does not open up nearby any non-university jobs though
Yeah I feel like thats one of those where you need more advanced education after.
My girlfriend has a BFA in opera.
She wears a helmet with the horns?
Please don’t kink shame.
My degree is “Technology Management” which is basically just the thing you get when you need a bachelor’s degree but the specialty doesn’t matter. I def wouldn’t recommend somebody pursue it at the start of their career lol
Sounds like a pretty generic label.
One you can’t back up in an interview without pulling up chatgpt, and only if you have no prior work experience.
After you’ve had a job for a year or two every degree question is just “did they get a degree,” and even then rarely is there a care; the post-grad job performance is what matters.
This is coming from a Journalism major/English minor who got a job in programming a decade and change ago by getting an internship at a company that later hired them (I was familiar with Linux and cross-platform tools the CS majors wouldn’t usually touch and which mattered to this company).
Of course, things are always changing. But fundamentally if you can’t back up your BA/S it won’t matter what it is.
I think generically, the “worst” degree is one that is highly specialized, and overstaffed. People point at liberal arts, but the problem with it is there are a lot of people with those degrees and not enough jobs that use them effectively. You could get a hyper specific degree but if there are 10 people that work in the field and 10 jobs and isn’t growing, or you could get a very broad degree that has 100,000 jobs but also has 100,000 people working in it and also isn’t growing, you’re just as out of luck.
You have to find a degree that matches what you’re willing to do or learn with who is willing to pay you/grow. Even then, there’s no done deals. 10 years ago Computer Science was one of the top degrees to get, now people are fleeing the programs.
Most arts degrees really. I think people mostly do arts degrees with plans to do a second degree in something more useful
In before ‘gender studies’.
I don’t think there’s a good way to evaluate how ‘marketable’ a degree is when that depends so much on where you’re talking about. There are degrees that are way easier to use to get a job here in Los Angeles than they would be in, say, Nebraska.
Sounds true
Cartography - thanks Google !
I think it goes this way
- Least: Probably a tie between most liberal arts majors. I can’t rank them, but methinks none of these directly lead to employable skills 😂 (which sucks because I think they are wonderful for a well-rounded education)
- Really bad: “Pre-X” (pre-med, pre-law, …). The majors themselves are honestly quite adaptable to most white-collar jobs. But their fields carry the stereotype of requiring a super-advanced (often doctorate) degree, so probably high chances of underemployment
- Bad: whatever major that was previously the part of a boom/bubble, so currently probably stuff like IT/data science. Great all-around majors that probably suffer from extremely lopsided demand-supply after the bubble pops
