General Studies: Brilliant Strategy or Dumb Idea?

This thread isn’t about “whether people find jobs better with a STEM degree.” It is about the worthiness of general studies. And I don’t appreciate your false equivalence of agreeing / disagreeing on the utility of STEM degrees vs. the utility of humanities and social science degrees. On your behalf, I have already elaborated much more than should be necessary to stay on-topic in this thread.

Maybe you should re-read the parts where I addressed the majors you cherry-picked, and noted that to pursue them fully – as in being an employed psychologist, for example – normally demands graduate study. How does this reconcile with your post-grad job insistence? For that matter, even a chemistry degree will often prove more useful with graduate work; engineering and computer science degrees are more likely to have higher utility in the job market after the bachelor’s. Again: not the topic of this thread.

Why don’t you simply start your own thread about how STEM degrees are simply a better choice than other types of degrees? If you have useful commentary to apply to the notion of general studies programs, with some actual data, experience, and the like, then please avail us of it. Otherwise, I would conjecture that you have changed the focus of the discussion.