Worst Paying College Degrees

QwertyKey
Tue, 11 May 2010 03:24:25 +0000

“I’ve seen this sentiment expressed in a number of places, and I also remember a study that showed in contrast to other majors, the writing skills of engineering students actually deteriorate from their pre-college level.”

I wouldn’t be surprised to find out this is the norm for engineering students. My writing skills are probably already worse than they were my junior year of high school (that was my last English class). I agree that an Engineering curriculum should include an English class or two. I dislike the fact that at my engineering school, if I want to take an English class the only thing it can be used for are free electives (for which many majors only get 9 credits, 1 English class would be 4 of them).

However, if an English class is what causes a “trade-schoolish” degree to not be “trade-schoolish,” then either college is way too “trade-schoolish” or trade school is way too academic (I want to say, “collegeish”). Or we’re throwing “trade-schoolish” around way too freely.