Most Regretted College Majors
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I know someone who's a Biology major. I don't think he's found a job that remotely cares about a Biology degree. And I know for a fact his coursework was leagues harder than my CS degree.
Biology as a four year degree is useless, though this is mostly due to current academic funding and the vast over allotments to sociology
If you are going to go into Biology, it needs to go deep into Molecular/Cellular Biology, Genetics or Biomedical Engineering.
Biotech is the next booming field, but even so, you won't get paid decently until you are in Masters/PhD territory and have seniority.
If I had a brain and was in my 20s, I'd rather go for Robotics.
There are a shocking number of STEM degrees that are worthless in the job market, at least at the undergrad level. Engineering, programming, and applied math/statistics (assuming programming skills are taught) are the only degrees worth getting at this point, and for the math/statistics you're best off getting a graduate degree.
Nope. Get a physics or mathematics degree and everyone will want to hire you. Especially mathematics. You can easily get an engineering job with a physics degree, even. I've seen it done. In fact, most engineers grads I've met have been pretty poor at actual engineering. At least half of them didn't even know how to do proper GD&T. The other half didn't know what it is. Someone with a physics degree at least knows propagation of error within experiments, and how to construct an experiment (i.e. an engineering trial).
You're saying basically if you can do engineering work, you can get an engineering job. Well, yeah. You may not even need that degree.
I don't know what GD&T is, but I'm a computer programmer not a Real Engineer (tm).
That's because a BS only covers the basics and all the professional work is done by PhDs, mostly in academic settings.
Biology is too vague a degree to even pursue. These days, Biology itself is basically an ecosystem of countless other degrees that they themselves branch off into their own distinct niches.