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As it turns out the college major most likely to leave you underemployed or unemployed is a degree in Business, Management, Marketing, or related support services.

Healthcare comes in 2nd place. Education is 3rd and Psychology is 4th.

Shocking no one who's been awake in today's economy, STEM majors are the most likely to be employed and employed well. But liberal arts, often a target of scorn and derision by people who flunked fiction workshop has a surprising return on investment.

Read more here: It's Not Liberal Arts And Literature Majors Who Are Most Underemployed

 

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But liberal arts, often a target of scorn and derision by people who flunked fiction workshop has a surprising return on investment.

It’s also interesting that although it’s a popular target of those who insist that a college education should connect to a good job, majors in “Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies, and Humanities” left a scant 18,824 underemployed grads in 2016. “English Language and Literature/Letters” had just 16,422 underemployed. And the major with the fewest underemployed graduates, according to the report, was “Foreign Languages, Literature, and Linguistics.”


Where're the percents?
Comparing raw numbers is worthless for the conversation.

Healthcare comes in 2nd place.

Wtf is that? Healthcare administration? Something else?

Even the article says it doesn't make sense and then doesn't go any further to explain it.

 

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It’s also interesting that although it’s a popular target of those who insist that a college education should connect to a good job, majors in “Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies, and Humanities” left a scant 18,824 underemployed grads in 2016. “English Language and Literature/Letters” had just 16,422 underemployed. And the major with the fewest underemployed graduates, according to the report, was “Foreign Languages, Literature, and Linguistics.”


Where're the percents?
Comparing raw numbers is worthless for the conversation.





Wtf is that? Healthcare administration? Something else?

Even the article says it doesn't make sense and then doesn't go any further to explain it.

I report. You decide.

 

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I report. You decide.

I'm just saying, while I agree with the premise that job prospects are much more about the individual than the degree ( 50% of current med school participants have non Science degrees for instance ), I don't think almost anything can be ascertained from this article. Especially the conclusion they are making.

 

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I'm just saying, while I agree with the premise that job prospects are much more about the individual than the degree ( 50% of current med school participants have non Science degrees for instance ), I don't think almost anything can be ascertained from this article. Especially the conclusion they are making.

If you click on the link in the first paragraph of the article, you can read about the percentages, the dataset, and the methodology in the actual report.

 

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If you click on the link in the first paragraph of the article, you can read about the percentages, the dataset, and the methodology in the actual report.

Ok.

Get fucked Forbes.

 

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Somebody failed statistics.

 

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Ok.

Get fucked Forbes.

So essentially the exact opposite of what they were portraying.

Fake news ...... .

Sad

 

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It looks like the article should have read despite having the least amount of people in their programs liberal arts still have the highest percentage of people underemployed

 

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French philosophy

 

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@Wild
Say something inappropriate to this Forbes author on our Twitter next time you're drinking

Lmao at our majors being 1 and 2. I will make this guy humble.