Anyone think a lot university programs are overrated?

I truly believe that the only serious life choices for a 4 year bachelor's degree in USA (and Canada) are :

1 - computer science

2 - business related degrees (business admin, finance, commerce included)

3 - math ( statistics, actuarial science, data science included)

4 - established / mainstream engineering degrees (mechanical, civil, electrical, computer, software, chemical, aerospace)

5 - professional healthcare (ex: bachelor of science in nursing)

This is in no particular order. I think any other undergrad has significantly worse professional value and is not worth spending 4 years of your life (and money / earning potential). Furthermore your interests can change during the 4 years of your undergrad.

You may no longer want to be be a doctor, or scientific researcher, or lawyer for example. In those cases:

- perhaps if you want to be a doctor, go for a nursing degree so you have the option of working as nurse if you no longer wanna do 4 more years of school.

- For those who want to get into scientific research, maybe pursue an engineering undergrad so you have the option if in 4 years life happens and you need to start making money or if you're no longer interested in working in academia. I think most people who do physics or chemistry degrees are better off doing engineering degrees.

- If you want to be a lawyer or work in politics, you can get a business degree and can still pursue those career paths. You can get into law school with a business degree and a lot of politicians worked in the private sector.

Other fields of study are important, but they have low professional value so while it's cool to take electives or study them on your own time, they are not worth dedicating 4 years of full time studies for a bachelor's degree for most people.

There are 3 exceptions:

1 - If you're rich and you just want to go to school for fun and pay for it yourself, go for it.

2- If you are truely the elite in that subject - like lets say you start school in engineering and are exceptionally skilled in academia/research and truely believe you can be in the top 5% of physics / chemistry research, and it is recognized and recommended by your professors, then perhaps it's a good idea to consider switching to a science degree.

3- You truly believe whatever you will learn / experience is worth having an education with less professional value and worse job prospects.

Note that this post only discusses bachelor's degrees completed as full time studies. This post does not discuss college education or graduate studies. What do you guys think? Is there a field of study I missed that you think has comparable professional value as the 5 I listed?

Submitted September 18, 2021 at 07:25PM by boredom_slayer https://ift.tt/3klZ8WK