<p>Curious…</p>
<p>Teaches you the ability to communicate ideas, value of hard work, teaches you how to work collaboratively among many other things plus it gives joy to other fellow human beings; this is just a partial list. Why do you ask?</p>
<p>A musical theatre major is as useful as a math major, or an english major, or a biology major, or a sociology major, and so on. The value of the major in life is as useful as the person who earns the degree…and no education is useless.</p>
<p>DeutschArtz, how is a math or science undergrad degree useful in life without a teaching certificate or further schooling to earn an advanced degree? </p>
<p>Amen to what Jeffandann said. If I had a dime for every engineer and scientist that I’ve worked with over the past 20+ years who cannot communicate findings, conclusions or just a summation of their expertise effectively in situations when it is necessary, I’d have, well, a lot of dimes. </p>
<p>Just from a practical standpoint, there are thousands upon thousands of people with MT degrees working in theatre and entertainment all over the country and around the world in many, many capacities. In fact, I’m sure someone here has statistics, but I’d say the % of MT grads working in their field is not much different than most majors, and better than some. There are many who move on to other fields (as do people with all types of degrees), but the skills and assets theater people have are strong, real world, practical skills.</p>
<p>And…giving joy to other human beings is priceless and totally underrated by some.</p>
<p>Arts majors jump ahead of tech grads in landing jobs</p>
<p>[College</a> grads in theater and arts landing jobs ahead of tech grads](<a href=“http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2013/07/30/tech-job-unemployment/2595669/]College”>Arts majors jump ahead of tech grads in landing jobs)</p>