lets discuss

[pigri]

the return on investment for a bachelor's degree. and reasonable expectations thereof

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[st_sardonicist]

I was at a conference on grad school at College Park, and apparently the most lucrative degree going in terms of return on your investment is an MA in English. I was tempted to disbelieve it, as you probably do, but the people talking about it are grad school consultants who sit around crunching the damned numbers, so assuming they know what they're talking about, we have to face one fact: none of us marketed our English degrees very well coming out of school. And maybe THAT is what needs to change here, because I've talked with local execs at a major multinational who say they much prefer to hire humanities BAs over business degrees because the humanities people know how to learn, think, and communicate. So there's also that.

[pigri]

But I suppose you'd have to be a person who majored in English and WANTED to go to work for a major multinational. :/

One of my high school friends majored in English at UVA, and he's now the Director of Communications for a green energy company in Cali. He's doing pretty well.