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Originally Posted by deakolt
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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
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Those metrics do not matter whatsoever, there are people with associates in IT that lose their promotion to people with a B.A in English, it's not the subject that matters it's the level of a degree basically you will beat anyone out in the job market if you're the one that is applying with a B.A and the other applicants have an A.A
That's why people in the upper levels of management in NASA aren't majors of physics or chemistry but rather master's and doctorates of english, psychology, business, and philosophy, we all know english and philosophy have shit to do with smashing atoms or sending a rocket into space, but they got those positions because they waived around their ph.D and thesis in front of CEO's.
So while my A.A or B.S in philosophy might be worthless in the everyday job hunt, but I bet if I had a Ph.D in the subject I guarantee it wouldn't take me long to get into some 6-figure position at a company in some human relations department