<p>Which majors are the least useful?</p>
<p>American/African American/Asian/Women's Studies
English
History
Anthropology
Communications
Sociology
Psychology
Art History
Philosophy
Religion
Physical Education
Film Studies</p>
<p>Define least useful. It depends what you want to do. Obviously physical education won't be useful if your plan is to become an electrical engineer. Similarly, majoring in electrical engineering won't be useful if your plan is to become a physical education teacher.</p>
<p>This is the least useful thread I've seen in a long time.</p>
<p>I don't get why people put "Communications" down. I mean you could work in PR/Advertising, Journalism, or Broadcasting. Definitely not a useless one.</p>
<p>In my career field, an engineering or hard science degree is "useless."</p>
<p>English majors are very useful for going into journalism, graduate school or professional school.
History majors are useful when looking into business, teaching, graduate or professional school.
Anthropology majors are useful for graduate/professional school or for working in research capacities or for non-profits.
Communications is fantastic for public relations, human resources, business, journalism, advertising, among other things. Easy major usually, but a very useful one nonetheless!
Sociology could be good for psych related things or study in criminology in addition to work in the public sector.
Psychology is INCREDIBLY useful. If you do it with a premed minor, you can enter into med school for psychiatry; you can also look into masters programs in psychology. Psych sets you up for law school as well.
Philosophy makes sense for those who want to go on to graduate/professional school and plan to become professors or lawyers.
Physical Education, pretty clearly for those who want to be gym teachers, also those who want to go into athletic training and the like.</p>
<p>Art History, [insert group here] Studies and Film Studies are all useful but usually make much more sense if complemented with a second major.</p>
<p>There really is no stupid major, though. Seriously. If you're good at it, do it. You'll find a job which suits your skills.</p>
<p>Useful as in there is a direct job that is available only to holders of that degree(ie. vocational), or useful as in a major that offers skills that are helpful in a wide range of jobs?</p>
<p>I know of no liberal arts undergraduate degrees which would lead directly to a job that people of other majors would be unqualified to have. Special education maybe? But that's really more of a graduate concentration in my opinion, not an undergrad concentration.</p>
<p>Wow. Africana Studies and Anthropology are tops on my list for second major. The first is linguistics...</p>
<p>And that's fine. The above list is both stupid and pointless. It's for those who choose majors based on how much money they make.</p>
<p>This thread fails.</p>
<p>I second hellojan
and add epicly fails
That list is riddled with majors that have multiple applictions in post college jobs. I will be a psych major hoping to do the med school thing after and really every major applies to something. No major is useless to everyone.</p>
<p>I’ll defend history. A lot of articles haveb een popping up saying that history majors are among the most sought-after by employers. You just have to know how to market yourself and be prepared to work in something other than history.</p>
<p>I’ve been looking around and I’m not too concerned about my future prospects, unless I can’t get into grad school.</p>
<p>English. I feel sorry for English majors.</p>
<p>MV64, do you have any links for those articles? (as a potential history major!)</p>
<p>Nutrition is a useless major.</p>
<p>of course this thread is stupid, it was made by a lil wayne fan.</p>
<p>^post of the year</p>
<p>L:DL
10char</p>
<p>Anthropology, Psychology, Communications, English, Physical Education, and History majors are all “useful,” they all have careers associated with them.</p>