<p>No idea.</p>
<p>Where IS grey? Hahaha.</p>
<p>An engineering degree is more useless than a political science degree?
Excuse my while I roar in laughter.
An engineering degree is, arguably, the most useful undergraduate degree!
Analytical skills?? I analyze physical situations all day, then translate those situations and explain the whole thing in numbers.
Analytical skills are probably the only skill I really have!
Effective communication is a better argument against engineering degrees.
But beyond all that, the beauty of a specialized degree is that it allows you to work in a specific field OR a variety of other fields.
Find out what the percentage is of CEO’s that hold an engineering degree and you might be surprised.
Even more surprising is when you compare that number to the CEO’s who have actual business degrees.</p>
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<li>21% of all CEOs have an engineering degree. The next highest was Business Administration at 15%. So if you want to eventually be a CEO, stick to either engineering or business, mainly engineering Id say. Dont be an accountant if you have CEO aspirations as only 5% have accounting degrees.</li>
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<p>[Taibros.net</a> So you want to be a CEO?](<a href=“http://www.taibros.net/archives/2005/11/07/so-you-want-to-be-a-ceo]Taibros.net”>http://www.taibros.net/archives/2005/11/07/so-you-want-to-be-a-ceo)</p>
<p>[What</a> Kind of Degree Do You Need to Be a CEO?](<a href=“http://www.phonydiploma.com/what-kind-of-degree-do-you-need-to-be-a-ceo.aspx]What”>http://www.phonydiploma.com/what-kind-of-degree-do-you-need-to-be-a-ceo.aspx)</p>
<p>For Fortune 500 CEO’s the most common undergrad/grad degree pairing is an undergrad in engineering coupled with an MBA!</p>
<p>An engineer can go into the vast engineering field OR can enter corporate America. </p>
<p>No political science major can do that!</p>
<p>I’m pretty old and returning to college; if there is a piece of advice that I would give any young person about their education it would be to think in terms of a CAREER and not just a “major.”</p>
<p>Who wants to be a CEO at a time like this?</p>
<p>Being a CEO and making a lot of money does not equal happiness.</p>
<p>I would rather come home from work satisfied with life than feeling guilty about all the people I screwed over that day.</p>
<p>Sorry, venting.</p>
<p>The argument that engineering degrees are far too specialized is ridiculous. Someone with an engineering degree can do all the things that poli sci degrees do. Most poli sci majors aspire to become politicians or lawyers but hey look at this:</p>
<p>you can become a politician with an engineering degree:
[Michael</a> Bloomberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“Michael Bloomberg - Wikipedia”>Michael Bloomberg - Wikipedia)
<a href=“The Iron Warrior – The engineering newspaper at the University of Waterloo.”>The Iron Warrior – The engineering newspaper at the University of Waterloo.;
<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover</a></p>
<p>Also, engineering majors on average score higher than poli sci majors on the lsat:
[Average</a> LSAT Scores for 29 Majors with over 400 Students Taking the Exam](<a href=“http://www.phil.ufl.edu/ugrad/whatis/LSATtable.html]Average”>http://www.phil.ufl.edu/ugrad/whatis/LSATtable.html)</p>
<p>Engineering majors can do all the things that poli sci majors want to do but a poli sci major wouldn’t be qualified for many of the things that engineers do.</p>
<p>edit: also if you feel bad about being a CEO and taking peoples money, as an engineer, you could join Engineers Without Borders and help disadvantaged communities improve their quality of life.</p>
<p>how funny that prelaw is right at the bottom of that list</p>
<p>I found that amusing as well.</p>
<p>Can we just agree Iaskquestions is an idiot and stop making fun of each others majors.</p>
<p>We all know engineering majors pwn, ok.</p>
<p>Some of us just don’t have the intelligence (Iaskquestions) or the fortitude (myself, still suffering from massive burnout, caused by high school, 3 years later) to pursue an engineering or applied science/math degree.</p>
<p>Oh, btw, Herbert Hoover was an engineer. Just thought I’d bring that up.</p>
<p>“Some of us just don’t have the intelligence or the fortitude to pursue an engineering or applied science/math degree.”</p>
<p>hahah, yeah… so the rest of us are just bottom-feeding mouth-breathers, right? oh, and stupid + lazy ones at that…
come on, man.</p>
<p>I think this entire “which major is worthless” debate you guys are having is dumb by nature.</p>
<p>As hard as it is for me to agree with pinker, he was right in the beginning. It doesn’t matter what major you are “if you’re a capable individual, you’ll find a way to make a decent buck.”</p>
<p>Besides, if your end goal is to go to some sort of graduate school, it really doesn’t matter what major you are. Political science majors later on become business CEOs. </p>
<p>Jeez, how bored are all of you?</p>
<p>very very bored.</p>
<p>Philosophy is far from being a useless major. </p>
<p>Most Philosophy majors score the highest (or is it second highest?) of all majors on the LSAT. </p>
<p>Sure there are majors that aren’t really marketable at the BA level, but most students at Cal and UCLA have their sights set on grad/professional school.</p>
<p>it’s second highest.</p>
<p>math/physics score the highest :)</p>
<p>I’m a physics major thinking about going into law :P</p>
<p>I’m a prelaw major thinking about getting physical ;)</p>
<p>hahah (10char)</p>
<p>Although I think you’d have a hard time defending art history</p>
<p>OGT and the rest of you nay-sayers…</p>
<p>enough with the elitist allusions, already.</p>
<p>Pssshpppbbtt. You can do something of worth with any major if you’re motivated enough.</p>
<p>for mr. physicsfem…</p>
<p>getting a degree in public policy (considered poli sci), is directly correlated to preparation for an MBA in public policy. Not to mention any person with an education in public policy, political science, or international relations usually take the first step by becoming corporate analysts in so called “corporate america.”</p>
<p>For the engineering majors who ultimately end up in the same spots as the people who have a poli sci degree, all I have to say is; the people who have the poli sci degrees didn’t even have to work twice as hard as the engineering majors going through calculus, physics, chemistry, etc…and since that IS the case for the poli sci and engineering majors who end up in the same careers, the poli sci people were just smart about finding their way into the same career without working as hard. sucks for the engineers who suffered way more through college ;]</p>
<p>oh yea, another thing, poli sci majors generally go on to become lawyers…and the money that engineers make pale in comparison to the money a lawyer makes.</p>
<p>ohhhhhh, this thread is going downhill fast.</p>