what is the most horrible university degree?

which is completely useless for job market.

 

That's easy. Ethnic studies like: degrees in African and Hispanic studies. No one should want to hire someone who spent 5-6 years studying the 'social injustices' done to these poor people, or people who learned nothing but how to keep perpetuating the big whine. Degrees in Human Services are pretty useless too.

 

Only capitalism creates a system where we laugh at people for pursuing knowledge, because that knowledge does not serve the interests of the ruling class.

 

Tgere are a ton of them. What use does the market have for a PHD in Shakespearean Sonnets? What is the market value for knowing the difference between a Shakespearean and an Italian sonnet? Poets can make money but to be a critic of poetry will starve to death these days if he doesn't have something else he can do. Most of the Arts are like that. Please note that the artist in what ever medium who complain abut sell outs in their field are the ones whose stuff no one will buy.

 

Only communism creates a system where we kill people for pursuing knowledge because that knowledge does not serve the interests of the ruling class.

 

Any degree is worth more than no degree. And the PhD in Shakespearean Sonnets (which by the way is a Doctor of Philosophy, not of sonnets) - yes even that is worth something in a general sense. Not so much the specific doctoral thesis but the fact that the degree is telling me as the employer that this candidate has the intelligence and discipline to reach the highest educational achievements.

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That is a pretty silly comment. Capitalism dictates a need for a degree if you want to be more successful. A 4 year degree means more money during a lifetime and some degrees like engineering as much as 3 million difference during a lifetime. The softer degrees will always suffer during economic downturns and the qualification requirements rise since the field is too full of people looking for work.

 

Pursuing a degree depends on what you really want, satisfaction or money or both. Becoming a doctor can be both satisfying and rewarding financially. Social work, though not very rewarding financially can be rewarding personally.

There is another area that is ignored in all of this and that is what will always put food on the table and that is a skill that cannot be outsourced overseas. I have many skills that cannot be outsource and am currently working in a field that is often outsourced so have something to fall back on.

 

Women and gender studies. The " education" is a boat load of bunk based on falsehoods. Totally useless in the real world.

 

Prob'ly the Masters o' Wringin' Farts Outta Shirt-tails.

 

theology, black or women's studies

 

We laugh at those who pursue studies that do not benefit those pursuing the studies. We also laugh at those who purposely bang the heads on walls

 

Women's Studies gets a lot of heat, but I'm going to have to go with languages. They're really so ill-suited for a university environment.

As for the least useful - as someone with a philosophy degree I'm going to have to nominate that. Fascinating subject, but good luck finding a job that uses the degree. I can tell people why they like fries with that, woo hoo.

 

The University system exists outside the market and in most respects ought to. Well actually his doctorate was in English Literature not philosophy and outside of his very specialized, very narrow field he was pretty much useless. I wouldn't trust him to get my order right at Arby's or make change. Guy didn't know that 10% of 100 was less than 10% of 1000. Him aside, a really nice guy, but way to narrowly focused to be useful in a business setting, society needs a few people to try and keep track of how we got where we are and the mistakes we made along the way in short to remind us of who and why we are.

 

The goals of going to college are: 1) to learn, 2) to obtain a marketable skill that is useful and will allow you to provide for yourself and your family, so you don't depend on the government (other people) to support you.

Degrees like ethnic and gender studies have little value. About all you could do with those degrees would be to become a community organizer, not an admirable occupation.

 

I could actually put effort into a response, but I've heard this one enough to get bored of it.

but what about the trillions stalin killed with his bare hands

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That's exactly what I just pointed out.

 

Just because you can't get a job with useless degrees, that does not mean you can't enlist in said degrees and acquire knowledge. Many people actually, with sucessfull careers usually take time to take other degrees not to get work but acquire more knowledge.

 

The one a person does nothing with.




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Language studies at least provide you with a skill that has market value. College is just an overpriced and inefficient way to obtain that skill. SJW studies is only good for creating professional victims.

 

It's actually not as bad as a lot of people think. It's no finance degree, but many employers recognize the usefulness of formal logic, and it's actually not unheard of for Philosophy majors to get jobs in finance and banking, much like physics majors do, because their understanding of formulas lends itself towards the industry. Apart from logic... yeah, it's not so useful in and of itself haha. But it's easily the best stepping stone degree. It isn't mere coincidence that ( at least in the US) philosophy majors do the best on the law school admission test and the GRE. It's the best degree for doing something else haha.

With language, it depends a lot on which one, and even then the use is limited, but it can be very valuable. The US military is looking for Farsee (I think that's how it's spelt) speakers fluent in it and English.

 

Probably any kind of philosophy or liberal arts degree.

 

Are you actually trying to suggest that there is no difference whatsoever in the relative usefulness, to an individual or society, in what DEGREE is pursued? ^_-

 

You'd be much mistaken. Go ahead and look at this chart and see where philosophy falls - it's actually in the upper half.

http://www.payscale.com/2008-best-colleges/degrees.asp

 

I'm suggesting that discouraging some knowledge because it's less useful to society is flawed line of reasoning.

 

Actually the ignorant have always laughed at knowledge for the sake of knowledge. That is why people without actual learning are so enamored of common sense.