If you look at the highest paying fields right now, many of them include titles that include manager, data…skills and focuses that you can’t generally get a degree in. Many of today’s high earners couldn’t have imagined of their career paths 15-20 years ago, and the same will hold true for today’s students. Even in STEM fields, automation, machine learning, AI and globalization will have profound impacts on the workforce.
If you agree and have concerns about a specialists ability to navigate the next 40-50 years of unimaginable change to the workforce (for reference, the guy who invented the world wide web is a whopping 61 years old right now), then the ability to problem solve and communicate with an appreciation for multiple disciplines is what may well prove most valuable from today’s educational spectrum. LAC’s I believe provide the best opportunity to learn broad, flexible skills that can be applied to the opportunities none of us can consider as the future arrives. Specialists who make large salaries are a dying breed.