Most overrated degrees?

[Woman of god]

I majored in sociology which many people consider a useless degree, or think it's only good for being a social worker. But I've had great job opportunities in social/medical research and it's served me pretty well. Also, being a good writer is always a plus, so it's a benefit to major in fields with a lot of writing- intensive courses.

 

[SheWantTheD]

To the posters who said Human Resources and Psychology, did you dudes even go to college?

HR managers make DAMN good money, and Psycholgists who get thier Licenses to practice charge upwards of $200/hr.

I wasn't referring to not only being able to find jobs with such majors, but you graduate with those degrees with no actual skills learned. More so just memorizing a bunch of information. And like you said, for Psychology you gotta get licenses. And you don't need to go to college to be in HR. fukk they even learn in that shyt? I know that degree is a joke.

 

[Gold]

true i think nursing is probably the highest paid B.S degree..without master
thats what im doing

Just a heads up, the masters in nursing program is going to fade away from existence in the US in the next few yours. It will be a forced doctorate program (3 year instead of 2) because NPs are basically DRs without the DR in front of their name.

TL;DR if you want that NP title and you dont want to go to school for 3 years (NPs make almost the same as DNPs), now is the time

 

[SheWantTheD]

I majored in sociology which many people consider a useless degree, or think it's only good for being a social worker. But I've had great job opportunities in social/medical research and it's served me pretty well. Also, being a good writer is always a plus, so it's a benefit to major in fields with a lot of writing- intensive courses.

You can learn how to write outside of school. And I don't know how people graduate high school without being able to write. I can write extremely well and probably better than some people who have majored in writing, english etc.

 

[AquaCityBoy]

Engineering.

 

[Malik1time]

Just a heads up, the masters in nursing program is going to fade away from existence in the US in the next few yours. It will be a forced doctorate program (3 year instead of 2) because NPs are basically DRs without the DR in front of their name.

TL;DR if you want that NP title and you dont want to go to school for 3 years (NPs make almost the same as DNPs), now is the time

good lookin out breh

 

[Gold]

Engineering.

I did a control F "Engi" just to see if anybody was gonna get that work today

 

[Warren Moon]

Psychology

Communications

Journalism

Writing

Human Resources (I got some friends doing this and when they told me I went ain't even know you could major in Human Resources )

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.

Hr is the easiest well paid job ever

Make a easy 6 figs making random calls

 

[Woman of god]

You can learn how to write outside of school. And I don't know how people graduate high school without being able to write. I can write extremely well and probably better than some people who have majored in writing, english etc.

You can, but few do. Most students come out of high school with mediocre writing skills To the extent that almost all colleges make a requirement for some form of writing/critical thinking class for freshman.

It's not that uncommon to graduate high school with low level preparedness for many academic skills, especially if your high school was in a certain neighborhood.

There's a reason why "remedial" classes are a thing in college.

 

[SheWantTheD]

You can, but few do. Most students come out of high school with mediocre writing skills To the extent that almost all colleges make a requirement for some form of writing/critical thinking class for freshman.

It's not that uncommon to graduate high school with low level preparedness for many academic skills, especially if your high school was in a certain neighborhood.

There's a reason why "remedial" classes are a thing in college.

Yeah but college isn't that far off unless you literally have the writing skills of a 5th grader. I took writing classes and the only thing we really had to do was write essays. Most people can get help on their essays to pass these classes. It ain't really teaching you how to write, how to read material and understand it, look for the allegorical and underlying meanings, etc.

 

[Michael9100]

Just a heads up, the masters in nursing program is going to fade away from existence in the US in the next few yours. It will be a forced doctorate program (3 year instead of 2) because NPs are basically DRs without the DR in front of their name.

TL;DR if you want that NP title and you dont want to go to school for 3 years (NPs make almost the same as DNPs), now is the time

Yea.. 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...

true i think nursing is probably the highest paid B.S degree..without master
thats what im doing

Are you in nursing school?

 

[Woman of god]

Yeah but college isn't that far off unless you literally have the writing skills of a 5th grader. I took writing classes and the only thing we really had to do was write essays. Most people can get help on their essays to pass these classes. It ain't really teaching you how to write, how to read material and understand it, look for the allegorical and underlying meanings, etc.

Well in order to write a good paper those things are implied. Especially for a humanities class. You can't properly defend a thesis without integration of quotes and subsequent analysis of them. Whether or not the actual courses live up to their objectives is a somewhat separate issue.

But to reiterate what I stated before writing heavy majors give you a good skill set, almost even independent of the major itself. Classics, literature, language, etc are generally considered garbage for a major in and of themselves, but the implied writing skills in those majors allow for their holders to get jobs writing grants, translating technical writing into lamens terms, etc.

 

[Audemar]

Engineering.

Cosign this.

 

[hotbeezie]

Nurses are set if you really bout that life.

I went in medical Laboratory Science

 

[mamba]

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.

Not all engineering is created equal.

One thing engineering graduates fail to realize when joining big F500 engineering firms is that a lot of the primary R&D is now being done in university research labs, which are funded by those same corporations.

Shareholders want to see consistent performance. It's hard to measure innovation, so that shyt gets farmed out to the universities.

Gone are the days of Xerox PARC or Bell Labs.

So, you are right in a sense. A lot of engineering jobs at major corporations don't involve a lot of creativity. That's why, when someone tells me they are an engineer, I probe further to see what they really do on a day-to-day basis.

If you want that classic engineering R&D feel, you're better off joining a university research lab or incubator. The pay may be lower, but it's closer to real engineering in terms of innovation and creativity.