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Re:Income-sharing agreements let students trade future earni... by rchaud on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @01:37PM (#19626976)
The fact that you're using cliched "conservative" meme tropes like "basket weaving" indicates you're not interested in having a non-ideological discussion about this. As of 2016, the most common bachelor's degrees in the US were in the areas of business and healthcare [1]:

[1]:https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d17/tables/dt17_322.10.a...

From the table in the link:

Business - 371,694

Health Professions - 228,896

Public Admin/Social Services - 161,230

Biological + Medical Sciences - 113,749

This is Hacker News. Please respect the community here and attempt to present some data to support your comment.

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Re:Income-sharing agreements let students trade future earni... by dsfyu404ed on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @02:10PM (#19627295)
Basket weaving isn't a "conservative meme". It may have once been (in a time before memes) but that phrase is in common usage as equivalent to "any degree of little to no value".
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Re:Income-sharing agreements let students trade future earni... by danans on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @06:26PM (#19629364)
It was never a conservative meme, and it isn't one now. It's just a stupid over-generalization today, as it was in the past, regardless of the politics of the person who uttered it.

Nonetheless, the parent posts' point and evidence still stands, that the largest groups of degrees granted are in subjects of value.

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Re:Income-sharing agreements let students trade future earni... by stale2002 on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @08:01PM (#19629869)
> Nonetheless, the parent posts' point and evidence still stands, that the largest groups of degrees granted are in subjects of value.

I strongly disagree with that. "Business" majors are an effectively general education humanities degree, that is pretty worthless a lot of the time.

The same goes for biology, actually. Yes, it is a hardish science, but the career path for biology majors is pretty grim.

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Re:Income-sharing agreements let students trade future earni... by PascLeRasc on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @02:51PM (#19627653)
Yeah, I can't wait for Amazon University to start graduating Warehouse majors. Now that's a degree of value.
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