The Battle of GameStop

Re:The Battle of GameStop by throwaway894345 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @08:19AM (#25915448)

My point about degrees wasn’t that some are more or less rigorous (although I haven’t heard of many rigorous women’s studies or art history programs), but rather that they aren’t going to pay well on the other side. I’m very skeptical of the claim that these programs are comprised mostly of the independently wealthy.

> Majority of students go for practically sounding degrees - like various business related degrees. They tend to learn to like them somewhat, but generally are not intrinsically motivated to be accountants or what not at first. They are not making childhood passion based decisions, but the "what gets me job" decisions.

I welcome some evidence here. I’m very skeptical.

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Re:The Battle of GameStop by pr0zac on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @10:17AM (#25916667)

Was interested also so I looked it up.

Source: https://educationdata.org/number-of-college-graduates

For bachelors degrees: 432,077 STEM 386,201 business 244,909 healthcare 44,262 liberal arts 82,621 education

So business is approx 9 times more popular than all of liberal arts combined with the vast majority of the rest being made up of degrees that would seem to be things that make money.

Looking at the pie graph breakdown by field business is the largest section not including "Other fields": https://educationdata.org/wp-content/uploads/76/bachelors-pr...

So appears the person you're responding to is exactly right.

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Re:The Battle of GameStop by sershe on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @01:34PM (#25919479)

How does it compare to the demand for these degree holders? On the pie chart, engineering is 6% and social sciences is 8%. Engineering is barely bigger than communications, or than performing arts... and frankly I wonder what %%ge of business degrees are actually useful. The other stat merges all degrees together, but the entire STEM and healthcare is less than a third of all degrees. Add up all the useless degrees together (I, personally, would make it a value judgment too, but for this discussion useless can just mean "not cost effective"), and you can easily explain why so many people have trouble with student loans.

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Re:The Battle of GameStop by throwaway894345 on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:08AM (#25917406)

First of all, this is a super cool website; I had no idea this existed. That said, it doesn't seem to suggest what timeframe these statistics are for (I've only had time to skim so far). As best I can tell, those are today's statistics, not the stats for the millennial generation, and I would fully expect the nouveau generation to have learned from our mistakes.

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