<p>@Blossom</p>
<p>Useless degree was possibly an extreme term. </p>
<p>I think a liberal arts education is ideal for creating well-educated, creative and intelligent thinkers. I think that some majors are too narrowly focused on teaching to specific jobs and that colleges will continue to crank out grads with these narrowly focused majors for years after the demand for them has dried up.</p>
<p>On the other side, I think that far too many employers are demanding applicants have college degrees than is really needed to do the job ruling out equally skilled and qualified albeit untested high school graduates.</p>
<p>So, to be more clear, a useless degree, in my opinion, is one narrowly focused on specific fields of employment that are no longer in high demand and not generally transferable or desirable to other fields of employment.</p>
<p>Otherwise, I would be the type to hire artists, philosophy majors and liberal arts majors and history majors for sales, marketing, management, etc. and number crunchers to do number crunching and engineers to engineer.</p>