<p>[Best</a> Undergrad College Degrees By Salary](<a href=“http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/degrees.asp]Best”>Common Jobs for Majors - College Salary Report)</p>
<p>Have fun.</p>
<p>Warning: DO NOT READ TOO MUCH INTO THESE NUMBERS. There are a lot of interacting factors here that are not taken into account. </p>
<p>That said, I found that chart fairly enlightening.</p>
<p>Let me just let you in on a little information. Im currently working at Publix while Im still in school and one of the baggers, Al, has a degree in psychology. hes now happily working as a bagboy for Publix, making more money that way than being a useless, unneeded psychologist. Especially in an economy like today, psychology just won’t cut it for you.</p>
<p>useless, unneeded psychologist? what are you talking about? my mom is a clinical psychologist and makes 90,000 a year which is twice the national average. she paid off 4 years of private school (brandeis) by the time she was 30. IMHO, psychologist is a lucrative thing to be,</p>
<p>I don’t think there’s an inherently useless degree. There are many degrees that require grad school, professional school or good networking skills to do well with though. Psychology is one example.</p>
<p>The most useless major is the one somebody chooses in hopes of making money. I think you’ll find people would probably rather be smart and make less to begin with than make more and be intellectually inept. The most wasted college career is spent majoring in something for money as opposed to something that interests you. If you are thinking of dropping a humanities or social science major just because it won’t make you much money, think again. Is it worth spending for years of your life studying something you don’t enjoy so that you can spend the rest of your life doing that job based off of the thing you don’t like?</p>
<p>Henry Paulson was an English major. Point is, just major in something you’re going to enjoy taken classes for.</p>
<p>If you plan on going to grad school especially, you’d have a damn hard time finding one that’s actually useless. That being said, it would be helpful to major in something somewhat related, but it’s not totally necessary.</p>
<p>My uncle majored in French, had a GPA of 3.1- albeit from a good school- and is now the Director of the East for a major international corporate insurance company making a seven-figure salary.</p>
<p>He’s never had a position at this company where his ability to speak French has been needed.</p>
<p>Well, I don’t know if there are useless majors but there definitely are useless people.</p>
<p>Where’s Bigeastbeast?</p>
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<p>Useless Unneeded Psychologist? You remind me of some guy I know from Propeller.com forums, he hates Psychologists too. My theory is he tried to become one and failed. You really think there’s no call for Psychologists in this day and age? REALLY?! With Psychology being one of the most impacted majors in the country? Are you really going to stand there and tell us Psychologists are useless? </p>
<p>…Might you be a ■■■■■?</p>
<p>A lot of psychology majors seem kinda useless, but the field of psychology is not useless. If you can become a psychiatrist and a psychotherapist you can make a ton of money (only psychiatrists can prescribe drugs, but a good psychotherapist can make lots of money because people prefer talking over drugs. combine the two and voila you’re rich).</p>
<p>All of them are useless. It’s about what you know and what you are capable of, not about a piece of paper. Community development a d urban planning have horrible job markets. I’ve worked at a CDC and there were phd children physcologists applying for the exective director position. A lot of people don’t even get into the field they major in. There are engineers who go to law school. Poli sci major get into journalism. Your degree may get you a job,
but If you aren’t competent they’ll fire you. I think they’re useless if you don’t go into the field.</p>
<p>NO MAJORS ARE USELESS.</p>
<p>Period.</p>
<p>Some majors are a waste of money though.</p>
<p>A Hebrew language major isn’t that bad. </p>
<p>I’d personally advise combining it with a general Middle East Studies major - the CIA, NSA, State Department, Military etc. are <em>always</em> in need of people who understand foreign (and especially middle eastern) languages.</p>
<p>Theater and psychology?</p>
<p>You brought this back just hoping fir another STEM vs Liberal Arts war, huh?</p>
<p>Well no! Nit this time!</p>
<p>Stay strong brothers and sisters, we shall not create that mess again!</p>
<p>^THANK YOU PURPLEDUCKMAN.</p>
<p>I am so sick of the wars.</p>
<p>Useless majors are degrees that do not teach you anything that can be applied (unless your plan is to be a top notch researcher). If anything, Art degrees are more useful than science degrees since you actually learn how to physically make things.</p>
<p>Classics!</p>
<p>If you’re going to school to learn how to use excel or craft a business plan or do basic accounting - things people in the business world consider skills - you should just sign up for courses at a community college. A lot cheaper anyway.</p>
<p>If you’re looking for skills that are useful for society at large, may I suggest plumbing, carpentry, welding, HVAC, or another technical (technical not being a synonym for lesser, as some of the snobs around here might suggest) route? Or perhaps Nursing. Take an EMT course. Things like that.</p>
<p>If you’re going to school to pursue an interest and learn something about critical thinking, writing, and to generally receive a liberal and “higher” education, then any major will do.</p>
<p>You can make a comfortable salary doing anything. You probably won’t be rich, but that’s just something you’ll need to deal with, and not something that can be remedied with education.</p>
<p>This debate is ****ing stupid.</p>