<p>What do you think about this? My mind has drawn many comparisons between the prospects of the two: teaching being a viable and one of the scarce options after the bachelors degree; not much room for growth or increased opportunities without a grad (masters or phd) degree; and even then, availability and growth being extremely limited.</p>
<p>I have always loved reading and enjoyed literature, and early in high school entertained the idea of becoming an English major. I never took it seriously though because of the job prospects.</p>
<p>Much later I developed a love for science. I also enjoy reading about it and watching videos on it in my free time but it doesn't seem to fare any better than a psychology or English degree in terms of employment.
And this is my own personal view, but I do not think it makes much sense to study a subject in college as a major just out of interest with poor career prospects. This has resulted in yet another major change for myself this term...no longer being a pure science major.</p>
<p>The idea seems absurd at first that the two fields (liberal arts and science) would fare about the same, because science (combined with engineering) is at the heart of all that is valued (tech, drugs, etc. etc.).</p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
<p>Everyone forgets that science is a liberal art too. For a liberal arts B.A., you will take English, history, math, science, and possibly theology/religion classes for your degree. I know that because my friend will be going to a school that offers that major only, and those are the classes she has to take for it. It was never better than the other degrees; it just was at one point because scientific research is a bit better than historical research.</p>
<p>All engineering is is applied science. Generally it is applied physics, but physics is also a science. I never realized this until later. Technology is applied math; the first computer scientists were mathematicians. The thing that is important now is applications. Before, when very few people went to college, science and degrees were good for engineering jobs, and at the beginning of computer science, math was a good degree for technology jobs. But now that application-based degrees such as engineering degrees and computer science degrees have developed, science and math have fallen by the wayside.</p>
<p>Science is included in the liberal arts.</p>
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<p>Note that the various sciences’ job and career prospects differ. Biology is extremely popular, so the large supply of biology graduates relative to the number of jobs available worsens their job and career prospects. The more quantitative majors like math and statistics (and physics to a lesser extent) are sometimes hired into finance or computer software jobs instead of pure science jobs.</p>