Re:Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)
by themitigating on Monday July 04, 2022 @05:43PM
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First, you're sample size of 10 people has no value.
Second mathematics is just one degree and can not be used as a representation of all degrees. Finally actuaries are just on career that someone with a math degree might get so that total number doesn't have value when talking about the potential of a math degree
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Re:Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall (2018)
by solardev on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @08:14PM
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For anyone interested in a statistical analysis of this stuff, here's one example: https://freopp.org/is-college-worth-it-a-comprehensive-retur...
They are a libertarian thinktank, so take it with a grain of salt, but it's a lot more data than we've had in this thread so far.
TLDR: Engineering pays, computers pay almost as much, art and music are usually a net negative (over 42 working years).
Looking at math, 88% of graduates will earn a 42-year ROI of <=$1,000,000, which means most of them are earning an additional $24k/year on top of what they could've expected to earn without a degree ("counterfactual earnings": https://freopp.org/how-we-calculated-the-return-on-investmen...). Only 3% of math majors should expect a negative ROI (i.e., they would've been better off NOT getting their degree). By comparison, 68% of art & music majors will have a negative ROI on their degree.