Worst Paying College Degrees

Brooklynborndad
Wed, 12 May 2010 17:01:23 +0000

"You have to pursue your passion, and choose your studies accordingly. What bothers me, though, are kids who knowingly choose majors generally leading to lower paying careers, and choose expensive private schools. Why pay $200K for a degree that will lead to a $40K job? If you want to be a social worker (and bless you if you do), go to a junior college or state school. "

why pay 200k for a degree that will lead to a 90k job? Unless A. It improves your career possibilities in that job OR It is rewarding in other important ways AND you can afford it

Which could be the case for someone going to a 40k field.

In some cases, I think it might be MORE important for a less lucrative field.

I am talking impressions here, but my sense is that the difference, in say journalism, between going to an Ivy, and going to a non flagship state, lets say (usual exceptions where the latter has a well known program), is huge. OTOH the difference in engineering, not so much. Not much at all in many cases.

Of course “can afford it” could be different, but thats another question