Which of these college courses would give me the best chances of landing a high-paying job?
Question by Oiras Ecen: Which of these college courses would give me the best chances of landing a high-paying job?
These are the courses I am plotting on taking in college. They all suit both my interests and my skills. I just need to know which of these will give me better chances at landing a excellent, high-paying job.
BS Psychology, BS Mass Communications/AB Communication Arts, BS Multimedia Arts and Sciences, BS Economics, AB Journalism
I know it’s up to the people character and how well he performs at an assigned task that will make him successful but please look at this question objectively while answering, okay?
Best answer:
Answer by eri
Of those, economics pays the best with only a 4-year degree. You need at least a masters to do anything in psychology.
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eri is right.
Before the early 20th Century, a college degree was not meant to train a person for a job. A college education was for private enrichment. To turn you into an educated person with skills in critical thinking to allow you to take up a career in public handing out, the clergy or business where you would learn on the job.
There was no intention for a degree to train you for a specific career.
But since the 1940’s the expectation of the public in this area a college or university degree has changed and a college or university education is now expected to lead you to a career.
Unfortunately the college and university system has not changed with the times.
A degree in Anthropology, Archeology, Art, Art History Creative Writing, Film, General Studies, History, Humanities, Language & Culture, Liberal Arts, Liberal Studies, Literature, Biased Science, most any language including English, Media, Music History, Paleontology, Photography, Way of life, Religious Studies or Sociology is considered a “private enrichment” degree. Journalism is heading this way too. Also pretty well anything called “Something Studies”. That is, these degrees are degrees that are meant to enrich you personally in the classical sense of a university education without leading to any specific job.
Psychology requires a PhD in order to do well.
These degrees sometimes result in a position in university circles if you go on to get a PhD though there is an oversupply of PhDs for all the academic jobs that come up in these fields.
But, in today’s planet where people go to university to enable themselves to get a job and hopefully a career a bachelor’s in these fields is essentially useless. With a degree in these fields and a GPA generally over 3.0 you can:
1. Get into law teach. But law schools today graduate far more lawyers than there is business for lawyers.
2. Get into graduate teach in a uncommon field. Hopefully one without too many prerequisites you do not have. Deliberate getting a masters in Technology Management. You can make a akin salary to an engineer but you need essentially no sciences prerequisites.
3. Get into graduate teach in the same field and eventually into a PhD so you can become a college professor in this field someday. But, there are far more PhD grads in some fields like Way of life than there ever will be professorships or any kind of teaching programs.
4. Take a teaching qualification, which is usually 2 more years, so you can teach the subject at a public K-12 teach.
5. Look for a job in a field where they want you to have a degree without any concern what it is. Where they only want the degree because they want educated people who have proven they can stick with something hard and see it to completion. Like the indemnity industry.
6. If you join the military you are more likely to enter as an officer instead of enlisted personnel.
Do note that if you do go for a more advanced degree, no one cares where you got your bachelor’s degree. Only the teach where you got your most advanced degree counts. And that counts for a lot less than the name schools would have you believe.
If your GPA is over 3.0, don’t take a second undergrad degree if you already have one of these degrees. A graduate degree will be more valuable to you.
So, what just so IS an English major supposed to do with college?
http://www.publicradio.org/columns/prairiehome/posthost/2009/07/28/english_majors.php
Here is a item of the average starting and mid-career salaries for most 4 year majors. The issue here is that these only apply to people who really got a job in their field. Small problem for BSc holders but things are not as rosy for BA holders. Many graduates in the lower half on the list never get a job in their field and are not counted.
http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/degrees.asp
The ones with the highest salaries are the ones in the most demand by employers. And the higher they pay, the harder they are. And generally the more math they require. And remember this assessment only covers the students who got a job in their field of study. The lower paid the job on this list, the few the digit of graduates in a fastidious major got a job in their field.
http://education.yahoo.net/articles/six_in_demand_degrees.htm?kid=12X5N
The Highest Starting Salaries of 2010
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/career-articles-the_highest_starting_salaries_of_2010-1296
Look here to find the job prospects for most all occupations in the USA.
http://www.bls.gov/oco/oco2003.htm