<p>Interesting Bloomberg article:
[How</a> Recession Will Change University Financing - Bloomberg](<a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?)</p>
<p>Bloomberg’s analysis is that a liberal arts degree costs too much and doesn’t pay off.</p>
<p>Sigh. </p>
<p>We get it. Us liberal arts degree will never make anything and we should just give up now. </p>
<p>Seriously, hasn’t this issue been rehashed over and over and over again? It’s quite tiring (nothing against you, just yet another article).</p>
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<p>Stupid, lazy liberal art majors. Yup. That’s what we are.</p>
<p>The author of the piece may be correct in many areas, but he is a very sour man. He makes his living by being negative.</p>
<p>I find it amusing that writers tell others what to major in…STEM…when…they…are… writers. The guy who writes for the NY Times is the biggest example.</p>
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<p>It is already the case that liberal arts* majors (as opposed to more overtly pre-professional majors) are not that popular. It is only at the most selective colleges and universities that are popular with people on this forum that they are popular. I.e. a liberal arts degree may already be viewed as an expensive unaffordable luxury by most students at most colleges and universities.</p>
<p>But even then, many of the liberal arts majors are chosen for pre-professional reasons (although some may be mistaken reasons, such as the perception that one has to major in biology to do pre-med, or that one has to major in political science to do pre-law).</p>
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<p>Within STEM majors, biology is the most popular, but it also has poor job and career prospects.</p>