Re:How to choose your college degree (2021)
by lliamander on Friday August 05, 2022 @01:48PM
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Some analysis I was reading suggested that the biggest driver in the increasing cost in universities was caused by the proliferation of different majors and classes (basically, these additional classes drove down the student/teacher ratio, even while most core classes remained full).
By offering niche degrees, modern universities are screwing over students in two ways:
- adding to their costs in the present
- narrowing the range of career opportunities in the future
By focusing on only the most useful degrees, a university could very easily compete on price and expected value.
There are a handful of majors that are wide gateways: accounting (NOT finance), the core engineering disciplines, the core sciences, the core humanities (including Math). Choose one of those that matches your interests. Avoid the fashionable majors no matter what. Even CS can be underpowered and CE almost always is (do EE with a CS minor if you can handle the rigor of EE)