<p>Ordinarily, I’m not in favor of excessive government regulation, but sometimes I think that each college should have to give all freshmen a mandatory 1-credit hour course covering the mathematics of borrowing money, a survey of who’s hiring which majors, and some numbers on the starting salaries of the school’s graduates, broken down by degree. Each student should be tested on this material and be required to repeat the course until he makes an A.</p>
<p>Obviously there would be an uproar, but so what? </p>
<p>One doesn’t necessarily need to major in bio, chemistry or biochemistry to get into med school, so to a large extent those degrees are useless. With some degrees the problem is not only that one can’t use them to find work in that field, but that the degrees don’t help with finding a decent job (much less a career) in any other field. An employer can look at a business school graduate and imagine how that person could fit into his company, but someone from the humanities and sciences, not so much.</p>