<p>Agree with ILoveUofC.</p>
<p>But also, you have to remember that people who get BA’s in Russian Literature often (from UChicago) go to Grad School, get a PhD, then work for a University, write, or do research. Whether that’s meaningful to YOU or not is beside the point. It’s meaningful to the professors who teach it and the students who study it, and if you take that attitude in college (the one that looks down upon others because of their major), then you will have a terrible, yet holier than though, time at UChicago. </p>
<p>Lest we forget, IBkid2011 that the UChicago College is a LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGE. No matter what you concentrate in, YOU’RE GETTING A LIBERAL ARTS DEGREE (by definition). While Economics may be a bit more “useful” in the work force, a significant portion go on to grad school and then get PhD’s, making them far more attractive to companies than just a BA. Also, UChicago doesn’t have engineering. </p>
<p>Overall, in this changing world, and considering the economic times, it’s gonna be really freaking hard to get a really freaking good job out there with just a bachelors degree. You’re gonna have to go to some sort of post-grad school, and Chicago does a great job of doing that. So if you go to Law School, it doesn’t really matter what you major in. If you go to Med School, you ought to do Bio, but you don’t have to. And grad school is up for grabs. You don’t have to study anything in undergrad to determine what you study in graduate school really… it’s whatever you love to do. Don’t just do Econ and Political Science (possibly just as obscure and “useless” as Russian Literature, depending upon how you look at it) because you want to make money. </p>
<p>If all you want to do is use college as a leaping off point to making a high salary at a job right after graduation, go to Wharton and leave UChicago alone. </p>
<p>On a side note, 50k a year is barely above the average income for the US. UChicago students, regardless of major, probably ought to be making more than that just because of the great education that they got from the core.</p>