Business Administration, easily.
Most overrated degrees?
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Pitfalls0117
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It's the skills that you develop and can demonstrate, not necessarily your major
If you're an excellent writer, for example, there are plenty of fields that you can enter and succeed in
If you're an excellent writer, for example, there are plenty of fields that you can enter and succeed in
How do I get a license in Psychology?
That sucksMy store manager has a degree in this
Malik1time
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Yes I'm in..just startedYea.. and with the general practitioner shortage among doctors, FNPs are slotted to to cover the deficit .... they are cheaper as well... My only problem is they're less knowledgeable than actual GPs but they're providing basic care...
Are you in nursing school?
If you're applying to law school, you want to major in an easy, bullshyt degree where you can get a high GPA. Law schools only care about GPA and LSAT. 
SheWantTheD
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I have no clue, someone else mentioned it.
Idk about human resources as a major but as a field I'd imagine it's not that overrated. Every company has a human resources department. Which means there's alot of jobs in that field. Idk the number of jobs and what their saturation is but a part of me feels like it's a bit lowkey and not that saturated.Psychology
Communications
Journalism
Writing
Human Resources (I got some friends doing this and when they told me I wentain't even know you could major in Human Resources
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I wouldn't necessarily say these are overrated but a good amount of people go into these majors not really knowing what they can do with it. Most students actually don't know what kind of job they can get with their major and what it entails.
Engineering can be overrated. I've heard from a lot of people that you don't use a lot of things you learned in college, you don't use math past algebra, you basically follow a formula the company already uses and don't have much creativity, freewill etc. Don't need an engineering degree to do the job, etc.
Now there are other engineers that said they have the freedom to come up with their own ideas, be creative, use a lot of what they learned etc.
People do engineering for the money. All that other stuff about not using what you learn, most know this their freshman year.
I know someone with a Business Management degree that got a job right out of college as a consultant for BCG and they didn't goto an Ivy either. Honestly if you do it right you can hustle those business degrees in your favor. Their easy so you should get as high as a GPA as possible, get internships and you can make out pretty well in consulting when you graduate.
Imo the truly most overrated degrees are the Science degrees (chemistry, biology, biochem, etc). If you truly want to be a research scientist or whatever then go for it. But understand the amount of time/schooling you're going to put into it will not give you an equivalent in your eventual income (unless you want to be a doctor, dentist, dermatologist, etc). Also many people feel like they would love research starting out and then they soon somewhat become jaded and/or regret their decision later on. Many of them feel there's way too many PhD's being pushed through and much of the research is pretty worthless (fabricated and not reproducible). Even if you do this for undergrad to eventually goto med school, I've heard there are easier paths to take. You can pretty much major in anything, and just make sure to take the necessary science requirements. I've even heard from some people that people with majors that aren't "science" might have an easier time getting into med school than someone who does (higher gpa, diversity, etc).
While nurses do alright for themselves, they're not making what computer science majors are making. Also I'd imagine finance, engineers are making more as well. And if you can land a decent consulting gig, they're making more too and you could pretty much be any major for consulting although they mainly go to those with engineering, finance, math, stats, business degreestrue i think nursing is probably the highest paid B.S degree..without master
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If you're applying to law school, you want to major in an easy, bullshyt degree where you can get a high GPA. Law schools only care about GPA and LSAT.
I've lowkey heard the same thing for med school. Although with med school you still have science courses you have to take and they kind of like to see outside experience/research.
SheWantTheD
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That's not necessarily true. A lot of people found out by working as an engineer, not by their freshman year of college.
you guys maybe going too hard on communications degrees. They have good versatility.I'm an engineer major, and I guess I'm biased but my mindset going in was about the job prospects after and I didn't know many people who felt differently. However, I'm biased and it's likely the people I hung around were because they were like minded as me. With that said I don't think it makes the degree overrated. If you want to do research and the job you're at isn't that, there's nothing stopping you from looking for looking for something else. That's actually one of the benefits of the degree because all these degrees prove is that your capable. Capable of learning, being taught, listening, following directions, doing, meeting timelines, etc. An engineering degree pretty much shows you have all of these characteristics, maybe more so than any other degree (I'm including computer science in with engineering when I say this).
I'll go with engineering. My job title has engineer in it and I would never consider myself an engineer. I get paid like one with no degree though.
Yes I'm in..just started
Was it hard to get into? and did you take those hesi practice test?