<p>^ Of course there are jobs for graduates with those degrees. However, at least according to the payscale.com data, the earnings potential does not appear to be as high as it is for many other majors (including engineering, physics, economics, CS, math, geology, and political science). The same data indicates that history and philosophy majors have slightly higher mid-career salaries than business majors. This may reflect the characteristics of students who choose those majors more than the market value of those degrees, per se, since the most selective schools often don’t have undergraduate business majors.</p>