Are there useless majors?

<p>It’s about so much more than your major or even GPA. Your work/interning experience and what you’ve done outside the classroom is so much more important. Some majors lead you directly to a career (engineering, nursing, etc) which is nice, and helpful for those going into it. But for most of the others, a degree is the basic education credential that you need to get a professional job. No employer is going to not hire you if you have the proper experience and skills just because of your major, that’s ridiculous. People who feel superior to others because of their major are stupid and don’t have anything else to make them feel good about themselves in their lives.</p>

<p>I repeat, the job market is bad all around. Now more than ever what’s most important is the connections you make and the quality of your resume/portfolio once you graduate.</p>

<p>If you’re a journalism major, try to get on the school paper and intern with a bigtime newspaper. (This is only an example, i’m fully aware that you can do more with Journalism as its probably going to be my 2nd major)</p>

<p>If you’re a business major, get an internship with a few companies where you might want to work and join a frat so you can work on networking.</p>

<p>There are so many things you can do to make yourself more marketable once you graduate.</p>

<p>Engineering.
Unless your dream is to be an engineer…</p>

<p>Lol.
Useless?</p>

<p>Yes, unless you want to be an engineer, as I said.</p>

<p>Um engineers are one of the highest demanded people in the workforce. Plus you can get a job almost anywhere in the world because the language is math unlike doctors or lawyers, etc.</p>

<p>Still makes it useless if you don’t want to be an engineer.</p>

<p>Uh, I’m a liberal arts major and even I wouldn’t dream of calling engineering a useless degree. Haha. In terms of career flexibility and salary, it’s probably the best major you could choose (assuming you want to work in a math/science or education related field). I mean, unfortunately for liberal arts majors such as myself, cold numbers DO show that we aren’t exactly in demand in this economy (besides economics majors, incidentally)</p>

<p>He didn’t say engineering was useless. He said it was useless to non engineers. Just as a medical degree would be useless to people not in health care.</p>

<p>He’s basically saying (As I said in my orignal post) that Engineering is one of those degrees that while not useless, locks you into doing one thing with it.</p>

<p>I was primarily parodying inNeedofPencils though.</p>

<p>Well, yeah, but that’s kinda a foregone conclusion. Don’t want to be an engineer, don’t study engineering, don’t want to be a lawyer, don’t go to law school, etc. I get what you were saying though.</p>

<p>Journalism… All i gotta say is…</p>

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<p>Vanechka, I’m not an engineering major but during my accounting internship (at McKinsey) I met quite a few engineering majors who are working in the business world. Employers hire engineers because they’re smart and can learn stuff faster than other majors. Engineering might seem useless to you because it’s a “vocational” degree like accounting, nursing and dentistry, but since people who complete this degree are smart, they get hired into almost anything.</p>

<p>Engineering is a vocational degree???</p>

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Whoaaa, that’s quite the generalization you’ve got there. ;)</p>

<p>A major is an opportunity to put a lot of time studying something you are highly interested in . Many times your major has no bearing on what sort of work you do .</p>

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<p>not that much ;)</p>

<p>Very much so. ;)</p>

<p>Journalism.</p>

<p>Nuff said.</p>