Guide to college majors

[callmedelonte]

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OBVIOUSLY YOU CAN BE SUCCESSFUL WITH ANY MAJOR. I AM NOT DISPUTING THAT AND YOUR MAJOR DOES NOT DEFINE THE NEXT 5, 20, 40 YEARS OF YOUR LIFE.
THIS IS ONLY A GENERAL GUIDE AS TO WHAT WILL BE A LIKELY OUTCOME FOR AVERAGE GRADUATES.

THIS IS ALSO 100% U.S.A. BASED
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GENERAL ED/LIBERAL ARTS/B.S. MAJORS:

These majors include: Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Communications, anything else ending in 'Studies' or 'Writing', Theatre, etc.
These majors do not teach you any skills that can be applied to a potential career. Avoid at all costs. The only jobs you will be eligible for
are the ones that require 'any' college degree, which are basically a step above menial labor. You know all those fat depressed 30-40 year old women
who work at any insurance office making **** money? That will be you.


PSYCHOLOGY:

Same as above. You need to do a lot more than just ugrad to be a psychologist. Except you are probably really annoying and walk around with a false aura of
intellectualism. Starbucks Major.


SCIENCE MAJORS:

These majors include: Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Physics and any other permutation that they can think of.
Unless you are doing this to get into Grad/Med/Dental/Opt/etc. school then AVOID AVOID AVOID!. These majors consist of little more than rote memorization, while teaching
you a trivial to acquire skill set, that leaves you ill-prepared for any career but that of a lab tech or other such menial nonsense. If you are planning on pursuing a career in the sciences
to be doing anything interesting you NEED graduate school, and most likely a pHD. Keep in mind that pHD/Master's programs are flooded in these disciplines due to people who were
'pre-med' (lol) and did not get in, so they are now trying to boost their resume etc. There is VERY little money to be made here.


ENGINEERING (non ce/ee):

These majors include ABET ACCREDITED Civil/Mechanical/Chemical Engineering
Civil: Don't do it, There is very little real engineering going on in Civil right now. The entire industry is not doing to well, and it is a very bureaucratic industry. 99% Of the actual engineering
has been down 20, 50, 80+ years ago, as an engineer the most you may end up doing is some FEA and looking **** up in your code/reference books.
Mechanical: Good $, Good opportunity. Also plagued with some of the b.s. of civil but definitely more opportunity here. Would recommend.
Chemical: Meh. If you enjoy chemistry and don't want to be a pleb I would strongly recommend.
Industrial/Other: Meh.
EE/CS: Quite a bit of money to be made here. I wouldn't worry about Indians coming over to take your jobs as 99% of them are incompetent. The russians/eastern europeans are
the ones you should be worrying about.


ENGINEERING TECH(non ce/ee):

This is engineering lite. In this day and age everyone is a goddamn engineer. The janitor at your high school is a sanitation engineer. Engineering tech is not to train engineers, but to train
technicians. 20 years ago technicians were trained by companies. This is blue collar work, and it pays like it. If you aren't smart enough for engineering but still want to do it (Most Engineering programs pass just about everyone who tries) then this may be something to consider.


COMPUTER SCIENCE:

Good money if you are good, very skill based....Starting salaries can range from 35k for the scrubs in middle america to 100k+ for beasts out west. Solid knowledge is everything; unfortunately
75%+ of CS graduates are dumb as **** who will spend their life as plebs making <100k forever.


COMPUTER OFFSHOOTS:

These degrees are: CIS, CIT, IT, IS, Any other bogus acronym universities can think of to steal people's money.
None of these are actually CS. The relationship here is similar to engineer tech degree and engineering degree. I would NOT recommend this for anyone. If you actually like computers
go CE/EE/CS. There is very little money to be made here, and many of these degrees don't teach you anything. If you want to work in IT just get CCNA/P etc. and go that way.
Nothing more than an Associates is needed.
Don't buy into that whole 'WE MIX BUSINESS AND TECH WOOHOO" bull****. Business degrees already get a bad wrap because they are generally worthless. Not to mention the 'tech'
skills you will have are complete **** from just about all unis offering these majors.


BUSINESS:

Lots of degree mills for the various business degrees. Very skill/social based. If you are a charismatic boss or have connections you can do very well here. Unfortunately 90%+ are plebs.


ACCOUNTING/ACTUARY/OTHER EXAM BASED MAJORS

Good paycheck, solid money. Decent salary growth throughout the career. Definitely a solid career choice for brahs.


MATHS/STATS/ETC

Get into finance brah. If you are actually good you can make some crazy ****ing money. Lots of plebs here as well, unfortunately.

If i missed something hit me up gonna add mo chit

[SkinnyBeast24]

[Mosho]

but who was EE

[blu51994]

if you do not have any pre-existing knowledge on computer science, would you still recommend majoring in it just for the money? i am xferring schools next semester (upcoming sophomore) and think i should decide a major soon.

debating between CS, chem, or nutrition.

most likely will be CS. i heard a lot of math is required, true? (not that great in math, b/c i don't like it, but will apply myself in order to get through it)

also, what is pleb?

[mudrock]

strong 1rd post

you signed up on a bb forum to post about college majors.


troll account alert

[IIMaCkiNII]

unaware on what a pleb is.

Accounting/Finance double major brah checking in.

[GermanLifter]

this cant be real life


the only good degrees you listed are accounting and math?...

brb accountant 99% suicide rate and worst job in the world

brb math have fun teaching in high school

[2am]

what did you do opee

[GoingGuido]

Where's history OP

[Prednisone666]

Could never have guessed what a miscer's college major guide would look like, so shocked to see engineering praised. Thanks for the insight ******* op!

[callmedelonte]

if you do not have any pre-existing knowledge on computer science, would you still recommend majoring in it just for the money? i am xferring schools next semester (upcoming sophomore) and think i should decide a major soon.

debating between CS, chem, or nutrition.

most likely will be CS. i heard a lot of math is required, true? (not that great in math, b/c i don't like it, but will apply myself in order to get through it)

also, what is pleb?

Nutrition = joke major (srsly) look into what you gotta do to be a dietician, but you probably won't do all that, so thus joke major
Chem = joke rote memorization major. Like i said if you dont want to go to grad/med/etc. school dont do it.
CS = Math-Lite. Not too much; if you enjoy it and are decently smart you can make good money.

[Rangerz91]

you know what's funny OP?

A **** ton of people major in "X" but end up in a field they never would have thought of themselves being in

It's all about networking and acquiring skills that pertain to other fields other than your own major (while of course being a boss in your majors coursework)

/thread

[Rangerz91]

Nutrition = joke major (srsly) look into what you gotta do to be a dietician, but you probably won't do all that, so thus joke major
Chem = joke rote memorization major. Like i said if you dont want to go to grad/med/etc. school dont do it.
CS = Math-Lite. Not too much; if you enjoy it and are decently smart you can make good money.

and not sure if srs on the Chem... I am taking upper level physics and math that I have to apply back to my discipline. you are a sad kunt m8

[callmedelonte]

Where's history OP

joke major.
Enjoy competing for b.s. 'any degree req.' jobs. There are some okay gigs at museums etc. but not much $.

[darkdream]

this cant be real life


the only good degrees you listed are accounting and math?...

brb accountant 99% suicide rate and worst job in the world

brb math have fun teaching in high school

You do know math major is one of the most versatile. Math majors can be employed as programmers too. Quantitative analysis are usually math/physics/cs majors. There are mathematical engineers who solve programs that regular engineers can not solve themselves. Actuary is a field that many math majors go into too. Pretty much all quantitative fields for grad school like math undergraduates.

[callmedelonte]

you know what's funny OP?

A **** ton of people major in "X" but end up in a field they never would have thought of themselves being in

It's all about networking and acquiring skills that pertain to other fields other than your own major (while of course being a boss in your majors coursework)

/thread

Yeah, no chit.

This is a general guide for where most people will find themselves in four years. Sure there are ambitious people with '1980s women in film' degrees who end up super succesful, but that is definitely not the norm.

[TheSithLord]

Doing Economics, should i minor in finance or business, OP you sick kunt, i also have no problem burning people or sucking up to the bosses.

[educated_Derelict]

Show me your fuking credentials *******

[llopezxx]

What about an education major OP?

[callmedelonte]

this cant be real life


the only good degrees you listed are accounting and math?...

brb accountant 99% suicide rate and worst job in the world

brb math have fun teaching in high school

Good degrees if you dont wanna do grad/professional schooling after ugrad:

accounting/actuary/stats(math)/mechE, EE, CE, CS, *sometimes* generic Business degrees.

[BrainsNBrawnn]

And who the fk are you, OP?

[Rigour]

Integrated Engineering is where it's at son. Double that with a business degree from a top tier school and you're set, don't hate on engineers.

My friend is an actuary, he works for an insurance firm and hates his life lol.

[-Gin-]

Math major checking in.

Now to find me a damn job...........

[callmedelonte]

What about an education major OP?

You know how they say teachers are supposed to be paid more etc.?

Yeah, not true. The major consistently attracts underachievers (look it up), and there is some truth to the saying: "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach". Enjoy being unable to get work in a decent district (unless you are math/science teacher), and have to work at 'ghetto' schools.

Nevertheless it is a respectable profession and I hope you inspire many young minds.

[Yuuzhanvong]

Aaah this is getting tiresome. Virtually all majors are decent if you really excel.

[TheSithLord]

Doing Economics, should i minor in finance or business, OP you sick kunt, i also have no problem burning people or sucking up to the bosses.

op respond

[callmedelonte]

op respond

finance

[THE-BEEF]

Easy way to know if your degree is good:


Ask yourself, if some sort of apocalypse happened and we had to rebuild would my degree be useful?

[callmedelonte]

Easy way to know if your degree is good:


Ask yourself, if some sort of apocalypse happened and we had to rebuild would my degree be useful?

So basically
No degree would be useful, except maybe some b.s. agriculture or something from A&M.
If that were to happen leadership skills, charisma, and intelligence would be king. Unfortunately you can't major in that.

[BrainsNBrawnn]

You know how they say teachers are supposed to be paid more etc.?

Yeah, not true. The major consistently attracts underachievers (look it up), and there is some truth to the saying: "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach". Enjoy being unable to get work in a decent district (unless you are math/science teacher), and have to work at 'ghetto' schools.

Nevertheless it is a respectable profession and I hope you inspire many young minds.

Hmmm, just changed my mind, I like the OP.

OP, how did you compile all that info.? Your sources?