[–] [deleted] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Depends on the program.
Engineering and businesses, push for internships. The supply chain program even has field trips so that the students can see where what they learn is applied.
The arts, openly tell the students to avoid career fairs. the students even listen. They even host events during the career fairs to prevent their students from attending, because once they do, 80% of them drop their major.
The 80% number, comes from the statistics department.
The biggest bane on the american education system, is the arts, and gen eds.
[–] Totenglocke ago
Of course I looked into it before choosing a major. There are plenty of subjects I enjoy, such as history, that you'll never get a good paying job with a degree in that field. Only idiots don't consider their job prospects when choosing a major.
[–] spookybm 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
I did not follow any advising, I just looked up the curriculum and went with it. I'd rather get the information I need FROM THE SOURCE and not some Gen Ed lackey who barely knows how the Engineering Program works.
Apparently when I was going for the Associates, the people that went with the gen ed advisers were tricked into Engineering Technology which is NOT an engineering program but a technician program.
[–] The_Exodite 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Is not bias, it's not inequality, it's just the market. We pay more for engineers than Arts majors because they are more necessary, they contribute more (in the background) to make our lives easier. When it's dark and its freezing, and I turn on the heat and the light, I dont think of Wymyns studies, I think of all the engineering that has gone into creating this energy, delivering it to my house, transforming it into what I need to keep me alive and comfortable. I don't take for granted, for I know without it, we're essentially stone age. Whereas Wymyns studies had provided what for me?
[–] Grospoliner 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
7-8 years of education to be a Master of Structural Engineering and know pretty much everything I need to know about the basics of all modern materials and methods. (The masters program doesn't offer all the courses I need at regular intervals so it takes longer).
[–] gota_party ago
Does it mean there are humanities graduates whose earning potential is so stymied by the crap they get taught in Oppression Studies classes that they effectively have to pay 15% of the cost of their degree every year for 20 years?
It's not clear what the chart means by "average annual return", but if it's cumulative then they only lose an extra 96% of the cost over 20 years, which is about 5% per year on average. But I'm not sure there is a basis to assume it's cumulative, because you can't take one year's gains and add it to the original investment. If the returns from the top engineering institutions are taken cumulatively you get a 38-fold total return, which sounds a bit high (2x the original investment every year on average).
Either way it's bad for those worst placed humanities grads. After paying for the degree they either pay an extra 96% or an extra 300% of the cost in free-market punishment for their virtue-signalling, SJW-ishness and general cuckery.