I have an issue with the cut-and-dried nature of this article. Yes, people headed to Wall Street after grad school are going to be raking it in, financially – good for them! – but the business majors I met in college didn’t LOVE financial firm careers, per se, instead they valued financially successful careers and the lifestyles that go with them. And those predatory for-profit and (particularily) “accredited online degrees” often take advantage of veterans and Americans down on their luck. Absolutely.
But, what about those who value doing good and making the world a better place? Social work will never, ever pay Goldman Sachs money. The social workers I know have passion, though, for helping others. There is value in that. That’s important.
Similarly, art is important. There are the superstars who who to colleges and major in drama etc (Jodi Foster went to Yale) but there are plenty of artists, writers, stage actors and more who love what they do and can’t imagine having a job which isn’t creative. These people, these community theater stage directors, these local art show mounters, they a make OUR lives more interesting. We should see the value in those that put art out into our worlds as well.
Future financial success is not the only measure of school outcome.