What is the ultimate 21st Century degree?

Classicskid
Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:14:31 +0000

@noimagination - obviously someone without engineering training is not going to be working for an engineering company, no matter the circumstances, but the majority of jobs at international firms or corporations that do business in other nations are not going to be engineers. There are other sides to a Russian or Russian studies degree, in which one learns about the politics and economics of the region.

To give you an example (if a personal one, so I’m sure it won’t be accepted), my cousin graduated recently from University of Richmond with a Spanish degree. She now works (if I remember her position correctly) in the marketing department of a corporation that does business in Spain. She now lives for most of the year in northern Spain. Granted, her job could have been held by a native speaker, though there is no guarantee that person would understand America like she does.

Anyway there are at least half a dozen threads right now about the eternal and pointless argument over whether a humanities or technical degree is best, perhaps we should just agree that the question posed in this thread is pointless as well.