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College is remade as tech majors surge and humanities dwindle

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/19/college-majors-computer-science-humanities/ ​ A recent post in the comments section says “Get a degree in a practical field and in something that has market value.” The article completely avoids that this advice is the reason why the humanities are in decline. I double majored in history and political science and made 32k/year at my high water mark for 70K in deb. Zoomers are seeing the bad ROI for these things, the years of articles stack ranking degrees by earnings potential, and are making rational choices, and now we're lamenting the decline in humanities degrees. ​ We chose this. We literally designed the system to encourage this behavior and now we're all surprised pikachu about it. I can't even right now. ETA: I posted the whole article below so you can get past the pay wall.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/19/college-majors-computer-science-humanities/

A recent post in the comments section says “Get a degree in a practical field and in something that has market value.”

The article completely avoids that this advice is the reason why the humanities are in decline. I double majored in history and political science and made 32k/year at my high water mark for 70K in deb. Zoomers are seeing the bad ROI for these things, the years of articles stack ranking degrees by earnings potential, and are making rational choices, and now we're lamenting the decline in humanities degrees.

We chose this. We literally designed the system to encourage this behavior and now we're all surprised pikachu about it. I can't even right now.

ETA: I posted the whole article below so you can get past the pay wall.

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