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Originally Posted by God-King Abacab
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Alex Trebek, the President of Iran, and Ayn Rand all have philosophy degrees...
Most politicians and Lawyers have extensive concentrations in philosophy, several Federal judges and Senators have a B.S in philosophy
the President of Morgan Stanley has a philosophy degree, Bruce Bodaken CEO of blue shield is a philosophy major.
Time Warner and Paypal are run by philosophy majors
Herbert M. Allison, Jr. CEO of Fannie Mae, former President & COO of Merrill Lynch and Sheila Bair Chair of the FDIC both philosophy majors.
So in what context is the degree useless when many of those whom majored in philosophy control law, economics, politics, and business?
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I think these examples speak to the intellect and charisma of those individuals, not to the worthfulness of the philosophy degree as a whole. I could also come up with a similar list: so-and-so dropped out of school, this guy was a janitor before he invented this, Einstein failed grade school math (this isn't actually true btw), Steve Jobs worked in his parents' garage...
A good metric for determining the worth of a given degree is the % of college graduates getting jobs 6 months, 1 year, 2 years after graduating and perhaps also their average income. I think you'd find on average philosophy majors have less % hire rate than do, say, applied mathematics majors, and probably lower starting salaries too