<p>I Do not understand what you are trying to say, I am Sure you will not be a English Major</p>
<p>As others have said, study what interests you. As an adult learner, I became interested in Statistics and chose to now pursue my B.S. in it and move on to grad school in two years. When I was younger and went to college, I had no clue as to what I wanted to study and hated math. A few years later after some time off and working a full time job, I went back to school and started taking classes again. I was going to major in econ and knew I needed a lot of math. I took an intro Stats class as a requirement, fell in love with it, and haven’t looked back.</p>
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Very handy for law school, actually.</p>
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Now there’s an entrepreneur.</p>
<p>I think in China or Korea or something they have criminals spend their time mining gold in WoW</p>
<p>I would say Philosophy is useless but it is somewhat useful for law school.</p>
<p>“The job oppurtunities for a biology/chemistry/physics major are worse than even an art or design major (in terms of jobs related to the field of study).”</p>
<p>If you count healthcare (not just doctors, but also nurses, care providers, technicians, physician assistants, etc.), then the job opportunities are way better. And then there’s also research and engineering jobs (I’ve heard of people majoring in physics and chemistry and getting engineering jobs related to their major).</p>
<p>“Really? Can you link up some stats/articles that confirm this?”</p>
<p>I’ll post later to see if I can find some articles (got a math final in about half an hour). The only thing I can find off hand for stats is the occupational outlook handbook but the information is from 2008. Even then the job oppurtunities certainly wouldnt have improved from then since alot of plants are closing down (for chemists) and a physicist has to pretty much go academic for a job. You could just look at the doom and gloom comments on the hard science board concerning employment opportunities to see what im talking about.</p>
<p>“If you count healthcare (not just doctors, but also nurses, care providers, technicians, physician assistants, etc.), then the job opportunities are way better.”</p>
<p>I dont think you can get those kinds of jobs with just a BS alone and nothing else to compliment it. You have to remember, hard science is treated similarly to liberal arts in that the bachelors degree wont qualify you to become a material scientist or life scientist - you’d have a hard time just getting assistant research positions with a BS - any more than a Bachelors degree in archeology or psychology qualifies you to be an archeologist or psychologist. You need a PH.D for those positions. Art majors only really need a BFA to be qualified for jobs and it isnt even necessary to have the MFA to teach. Im comparing a BFA to a BS not a BFA to PH.D. You certainly couldnt call yourself a physicist with just a BS.</p>
<p>“And then there’s also research and engineering jobs (I’ve heard of people majoring in physics and chemistry and getting engineering jobs related to their major).”</p>
<p>Research/academic positions are fiercely competetive for physicists, biologists, and chemists. Plus academic jobs for artists actually have pretty good turn over. Of course. the reverse is true for HS art teachers compared to HS science teachers. Also, when I say “art related jobs” im including “designers” and not just fine arts. It shouldnt be too hard to believe that artists dont have the absolute worse employment opportunities. In the same way that engineers influence pretty much everything, I’d bet anything that pretty much every object or material in your environment was partly made by a designer.Naturally i’ll back this all up later on.</p>
<p>People of all majors seem to manage to be employed and do important things, so it does seem to come down to the individual.</p>
<p>Typically social sciences, such as philosophy or sociology, won’t get you very far without a graduate degree or phd</p>
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<p>Can you elaborate? What fields of philosophy in particular?</p>
<p>I am planning on going to Medical School and although I am a Philosophy major I’m Specializing in NEUROPHILOSOPHY. For law school I would suggest any philosophy field strong in Rogerian Argument and rhetoric.</p>
<p>Philosophy= Love of wisdom <3</p>
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<p>Here’s a few articles.</p>
<p>If some of you were planning to get a BS, dont get dissauded or anything. The person behind the degree is obviously more important than the degree itself.</p>
<p>If you’re Pre-med or Pre-Law, most likely not. But if you trying to get a job, yes.</p>
<p>I diversified after getting my BS in Applied Math. I got a BA in Economics.</p>
<p>It definitely helps to have multiple avenues of expertise in the work place. Makes you more marketable.</p>
<p>^ Probably the most useful piece of advice here. You don’t have to be defined by your ‘major’, and it’s generally expected that more and more people today will pursue some sort of specialized, post-graduate education or training. Even business schools (for example) prefer candidates with any background other than business.</p>
<p>Unless you are hoping to be recruited right out of undergrad (i.e. investment banking recruiting model), education in this economy can’t end once you have a Bachelor’s degree.</p>
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Or if you aren’t going for a high-paying job. Not everyone is.</p>
<p>Philosophy is one of the most useful majors out there, I can’t see how anyone would say otherwise. Unless of course they’ve never actually TAKEN a philosophy class and they have some weird idea that it’s just a group of hippies who sit around and ponder the meaning of the universe.</p>
<p>^ If you’re planning to go to law school or pursue an academic (i.e. not professional) Master’s Degree, yes.</p>
<p>^ Not really. Philosophy majors are very trained, skilled writers, have strong research skills, and are a great assets for a wide variety of businesses.</p>
<p>If majors are “useless” then why do they exist? Why would a university have a “useless” major? To intentionally have someone fail in life? Someone’s gotta do the job. In the end it’s up the student and his/her efforts to find a job or continue school.</p>