College is a great place to learn and have fun. But let’s not kid ourselves, some degrees are as useless as the plot in a Michael Bay film. Here’s a list of 10 degrees that may be interesting, but do jack shit for you in the real world.
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: With an art history degree you could maybe curate an art gallery or work at a museum or….yeah, that’s it. That’s all you can do. And seeing as how every art gallery and museum I’ve ever been to has exactly one dude sitting quietly at a desk reading a New Yorker and eating a food that requires chopsticks, I’m going to go ahead and assume there’s not a lot of positions open in the field. That means you’re going to have to venture out into the corporate world. And let me inform you, when you’re interviewing with Bob from the HR team at Wal-Mart who’s wearing a tie that has the twin towers smoking with writing underneath that says “We Will Never Forget,” your art history degree says to him “I’m a commie a-hole who thinks I’m better than guys with 9/11 ties.”
What Job You’ll End Up With: After your parents boot your ass from your bedroom to make room for anything that’s not your bedroom, you’ll wander towards the nearest coffee shop and get a job there, which will allow you to meet artists who will thank you for allowing them to put fliers by the cash register that inform people of their upcoming show that touts “the combination of art and flute.”
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: This isn’t ancient Greece: No one is going to pay you money, or allow you to sodomize their attractive son, in exchange for your knowledge of existence. Never has there been an employer who’s said “Man, we’re having all kinds of problems, I wish we had someone on our team who could reference and draw conclusions from the story of Siddhartha that would pull up our fourth quarter numbers.” I took many philosophy classes and it involved reading and smoking a shit pile of weed. You don’t need to pay 20,000 dollars a year to do that. All you need is twenty dollars and a library card.
What Job You’ll End Up With: Thanks to your extensive knowledge of philosophy, you’re now self-aware enough to know that most jobs out there will make you totally miserable. So most likely you’ll wait tables part time and hope someone starts paying you for the bi-monthly entries on your blog.
Why It Won't Help You Get a Job: If you're not named Achmed or Bjork or G'Day Mate this isn't a degree, it's the last 18 years of your life. If you really want to study us you don't need to go to some stupid class, you need only to sit back and watch a two-hour block of Must-See TV to understand The American. After doing my own research, it seems that this mysterious creature is a pot-bellied humanoid with a hot wife and bad credit who has a penchant for low-calorie beer, Chilis, Applebees, TGIFridays, Denny's, McDonald's, Taco Bell, Dave and Busters, Steak and Shake, Chilis (again) and Red Lobster. Oh and he can totally demolish a White Castle Crave Case in, like, 20 seconds. OK, now give me my degree.
What Job You’ll End Up With: To take your American Studies degree one step further, you will be qualified to do 40-50 years of “graduate work” cleaning tables and taking orders at a Chilis, Applebees, TGIFridays or Red Lobster. Or possibly Denny’s.
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: I didn’t even know this was a major until I found it on the Appalachian State website. According to their actual explanation of this major: “Music therapy is the scientific application of the art of music within a therapeutic relationship to meet the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs of individuals.” Which is a big, fancy way of saying “We’ll teach you how to make a mix tape.” I guess I, too, am a qualified music therapist because my “Summer Jams ‘95” tape I made in the 10th grade totally rocked my house party. All my friends told me that kicking it off with Wreckz-N-Effects “Rump Shaker” followed by Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise” totally met their physical, mental and spiritual needs to help them get wasted on my dad’s Schnapps and Drambuie.
What Job You’ll End Up With: After realizing that yoga studios and elderly homes don’t pay people just to come in and set mood music, you’re sadly going to end up putting your degree towards burning a fire to keep warm because you are homeless.
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: Go into a communications class on any given day and it’ll smell like dried semen and booze. Reason being, communications is the major for anyone who wants to graduate, but doesn’t want to stop getting totally wasted on weekdays. Here’s the bad news, if an employer is going to hire someone to help decipher how human beings communicate, he’s going to hire someone with the letters “Dr.” before their name, not the person who first checks to see if a class is offered online, then when they find out it’s not, let’s out a “gaaaaay bro.”
What Job You’ll End Up With: You’ll go to several job interviews that turn out to be pyramid schemes, even though at first you won’t realize this and come home and tell your parents, who you still live with, “They said I’ll probably be making six figures in less than a year just by selling these beer cozies.”
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: Despite what “Dancing with the Stars” and “High School Musical” may tell you, there aren’t a lot of dancing jobs out there—so you better be good because there aren’t any gigs for mediocre dancers. Outside of New York City or some crap in LA there is absolutely nothing you can do with a dance degree that doesn’t involve actually dancing for money. And since the Des Moines interpretive dance movement hasn’t really taken off yet, you have a better chance landing a job as an 8-Track repairman or a member of the Beatles.
What Job You’ll End Up With: After moving to New York and trying out for Hello Dolly! or Damn Yankees or any of the other seven Broadway plays that want dancers and not landing a single one because you got your dance degree from Ball State, you will find ample opportunity to show off your choreographic skills at one of the city’s many strip clubs. You’ll just need to change your name to Crystal or Bambi and you’ll be able finally live out your dream as a dancer. (Mom and Dad will be so proud!)
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: If someone can spend a weekend with a box of Cliff’s Notes and have only a slightly less conversational knowledge of what you spent 4 years studying, you probably don’t have the most employer friendly degree. Having an English Lit degree is like being a member of the Kansas City Royals: No one cares and the best you can hope for is every once in a while someone buys you a beer because of it.
What Job You’ll End Up With: You can read and comprehend, so that gives you an advantage over 99.5% of the people that peruse Craig’s list job listings. Therefore, you’ll most likely end up landing an entry level position at a random small company, or showing up to your interview and being raped repeatedly by a group of masked men.
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: Not only does no one speak this language anymore, but we already have all the Latin that exists in the world. There’s no new Latin that’s hot off the presses that needs immediate translating. I’m no business major, but majoring in a language that doesn’t exist anymore doesn’t sound so good for job security. And I’m sorry to break the news to you, but the world doesn’t need someone to translate The Bible or the inscription on the side of a Post Office or El Loco Latino’s “Latin House Party.”
What Job You’ll End Up With: Since you majored in something that doesn’t exist, you’re going to have two jobs. Your first one will be as the annoying pretentious guy who gives everyone the Latin etymology of every big word he hears at every dinner party he attends. Your second, and most lucrative job, will be as a Subway Sandwich Artist.
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: No one in hollywood gives a shit that you made a short film about an alcoholic albino that discovers the meaning of life through the help of a retarded child. Unless that retarded child was played by the son of Harvey Weinstein, your film or degree will be as pointless as the last three seasons of Lost
What Job You’ll End Up With: If you’re lucky, you’ll have an uncle who can get you a job as a production assistant on CSI Miami, where your time will be spent making coffee runs and finding whores that will let David Caruso pee on them.
Why It Won’t Help You Get a Job: Sorry God, but a major in Religion is about as worthless as St. Brice (The Patron Saint of Stomach Aches.) Even Duke University can’t put a solid sell on this degree: “A major in religion offers intellectual excitement and can be a pathway to a liberal education.” OK, you sold me. So now I get to shell out about a hundred thousand dollars so I can know what to wear to a Shinto ceremony and learn how many virgins Allah will give me if I blow myself up in an Israeli square? If it’s OK with you, I’ll keep my money and stick to my sinning-a-lot-now-and-repenting-on-my-deathbed plan.
What Job You’ll End Up With: This one is tricky. On one hand you’ll probably end up working behind the desk of a Christian Science Reading Room. But on the other, you may end up with everlasting peace and spiritual enlightenment. Let’s call it a draw.
you forgot a couple of other worthless ones. Psych.. Mainly worthless due to lack of evidence to back their claims. You could always get into the medical industry but pretty sure you have to be a psychiatrist to do that. Marketing field also works there but most of it wouldn't really matter considering the market is saturated by wannabe self help healers. Then there is Math and English majors. Yes there are some out there. If you're not a teacher yet. Chances are you will never be one.
English isn't a worthless major at all. There is and will always be a need for good writers. Just type in writing jobs and there are thousands of oppurtunities for ghostwriters, grant writers, bloggers (Yes, people pay for bloggers), etc. because people such as yourself generally watch too much TV and read too few books to be able to express yourself via the written word. Soooo blow yourself?
Math is a useful degree. If you are averagely good with theoretical math you can get a doctorate, teach college, and easily make make 80k/yr. Or you can go into applied math and work for a telecom company, financial firm, etc.
You can also pursue grad work in physics and some types of engineering.
Either way, by earning your degree you have excellent math skills, excellent abstract reasoning skills, and are a solid programmer/logician.
In any case its far more useful than marketing, human resources, or english.
intellectual excitement and can be a pathway to a liberal education.” OK, you sold me. So now I get to shell out about a hundred ... Social Work is the most expensive useless degree. $200,000 education so you can make $18,000 and live in the worst neighborhoods in the ... Course Works
Nice list, although I don’t think media deserves to be on the list, and Lost is actually a very good show. I knew someone once who tried to get a fake degree in religion, I really didn’t understand why lol.
yea math is completely useless, statistics doesnt help with any of these; medical practice, psychology, marketing, human resources, accounting, computer science, IT, sales, retail...etc
having 300+ million people in a country really does increase the chances are getting retards now doesn't it?
Ok Mr. I'm a fucking retard. Math is not a worthless major, not even close. There are plenty extensions to the field, such as actuarial science, risk management, applied mathematics, statistical mechanics, and the fucking list goes on. All of these fields have the possibility of 100,000+ USD a year salary. Actuarial science happens to be one of the top 5 jobs in the world based off pay/lifestyle/and work related stress. Risk management is used widely through corporations. Please gtfo saying math is worthless jackass.
The problem with the modern education system is that no one goes to college to learn anymore. Rocketing tuition costs and cost of living are forcing students to pick "profitable" majors, instead of doing what they love. Not to mention that the profitability of majors can change dramatically. Ten years ago, no one thought that finance-soon-to-be-investment-banker majors would be applying at Starbucks in 2008. Things change.
No major is useless, if anything, you're bettering yourself as a person. The happiest people, and the ones with the most successful personal lives, are the ones that do what they love, not the ones dreading driving home to their domestic housewife in suburbia after a long day of ass-kissing.
I don't think this time where students went to college for intellectual curiosity and "learning" ever existed. For the vast majority of students, college has always been about their futures. Think about it...who had access to higher education 200 years ago? Them learning things like Latin and Greek wasn't for intellectual curiosity, but was a viable field back then that major educational texts were based on. Not to mention that it carried serious social weight...making upward mobility more possible.
First of all, Dave you're a douche. Many psych majors become case workers, counselors, teachers, or psychiatrists. 3:4 make good money. Some of the wealthiest people on Wall Street that I know were math majors. I also know plenty of marketing majors that went on to either become entrepreneurs, get their mbas and then become entrepreneurs, or climb the corporate ladder. English majors are pretty much fucked, better hope you have an intent to attend law school, get your phd and teach, or start writing something that people want to read enough to buy you a house and pay for your sperm to find an egg and become kids that are fed, clothed, and sent to college to hopefully not avenge your failures.
ps. did anyone else laugh hysterically when they scrolled down to the latin major?
This is a funny list! Though all of these opinions are based on simply geting a B.A in said major. Most people who take a major in which other people deem as useless, go for their doctorate because thats were the money is at. As for Latin Majors, no one just majors in Latin. If your're not going into Seminary, then you are learning Latin because your area of study is Classics, the latin is a foundation.
I majored in biology, minored in political science and English, and am now in law school. Being an English minor, I have several friends who were English majors, most got jobs straight out of school, and not a single one I know is "fucked". In fact, English majors have it better now than they ever did before. The market was flooded with business and fiance majors in the 90s and early 2000s. Many companies are now realizing that they would rather hire someone who can communicate well, both verbally and written- with a basic understanding of how the business world works, and teach them how their particular business is run, rather than hiring a cocky business major who can't even spell his own name. One catch, however. Most English majors I know are very smart and held good GPAs. A handful are working for sizable companies and are making good livings, another one started her own marketing firm, a few became teachers and another few went to grad school. Personally, I'm extremely glad I minored in English. My writing and verbal skills are much better because of it, and that's invaluable no matter what you do. If you're majoring in English, compliment it with a decent minor, such as computer science, econ, etc., do well, and you won't have a problem finding a job in business or elsewhere.
Personally, I think people who study science, engineering or math have knowledge that is more applicable to the real world and better for society as a whole. These are the people who advance technology, discover new medicine and make our lives much easier everyday. On another note, any liberal arts degree such as English or History is just as useful. You learn to think critically, speak your mind and grow as a person. After all isn't that what college is meant to achieve? It's sad that tuition costs have forced some people to unwillingly pursue profitable majors.
That said, I think it is a ridiculous stereotype when people accuse business majors of not being able to communicate. This may have been true in the past but with the growing importance of communication in the corporate world since the time of Jack Welch and GE in the 1980s, business schools have stressed the importance of communication in admissions and in the classroom. Have you ever thought about what it takes to get into a good business school? It is not easy. The top schools only accept the best students from top high schools. Do you think its possible for some of these kids to have 98 averages in high school without being exceptional English students? Not only that, most business applicants have to display leadership skills as well as academic acumen. When was the last time someone was able to become President of their school without being able to communicate? Business students at every college take a liberal arts core that includes English classes and courses DEVOTED to speech and communication. Almost every business class involves a end of semester presentation that is critiqued to the fullest extent. I advise you to sit in on a business class at a decent school before you criticize a business major's communication ability.
Your sorry ass can't decipher the difference between complement and compliment. I'm a fucking chemical engineering major who works in finance and I write better than you do.
You've apparently confused the psychology (the study of cognition and behavior, compliant with all tenants of scientific rigor), with the "psychology" section of your local bookstore (populated with inane claims by armchair "psychologists", who are little more than charlatans).
You wouldn't see a book on alchemy or astrology taken seriously, even if they were in the chemistry or astronomy sections, respectively. So why should we think of self-help books as true psychology?
Psychology is empirically based! It has a factual basis, backed by careful observation of operational constructs! The "Psychology" you're referring to is historical, Freudian idiocy, which has no part in a modern Psych program. Psychology is a highly applicable science, and I urge you to become more informed before you go about flaming a serious practice.
No, I'm afraid you can't put blame of the "self help" books on psycho-analysis. I agree that Freud's teachings are quite outdated but Humanism is the reason why there's a crap load of "you can do it" shit books out there.
Humanism?! What does that have to do with psychology? Humanism is about defining morals and ethics using a rational basis rather than resorting to the supernatural or religious texts.
This list is kind of ridiculous. Granted you probably can't become a CEO with a major in Film, but what Film major would really want to, that's kind of the point. I need to watch something of substance. Maybe I'll make a trip to Digitalfuntown.com and check out the new Nuttcups video that just came out
Interestingly enough, the most cited undergraduate degrees (so law is not one) of CEO and executives are: engineering, finance, film, and economics. Film is apparently the degree that allows you to communicate with people; go figure.
How does Women's Studies not make this list? That has to be the most useless degree of them all because you don't actually learn anything!!! At least with film someone can learn something.
Agreed. Women's Studies is totally worthless to get a job.
These people end up doing something else 99% of the time.
Now, I do know someone who went to Law School after having that degree, so it's not COMPLETELY worthless, but it's basically one of those majors that leaves you with:
OK, I completed college and have a degree.
Environmental Studies should be added to this list. Environmental Science is a MUCH better major.
I'm going to leave a comment to try and show how intelligent I am, while at the same time belittling the author of a blog written for sheer entertainment....I laughed, mission accomplished funny author man
you should major in biology or any life science. I mean you won't really get a good
job after you graduate, but you can get into teaching, research, or become a doctor. I'm doing to medical school now, and it is hard work, but the pay off is so worth it in the end!
This is hilarious. What some of you don't seem to understand is that an undergrad degree in anything that is NOT an applied science holds very little sway in the eyes of employers.
The way you get a job out of college is not based on your major but rather on what you did with your time as an undergrad. Research, internships, and field experience is what counts. There is no such thing as a useless major - rather a useless undergrad experience.
If you want employment based SOLELY on your education and/or degree, you need at least a masters in something applied, or a PhD in something that isn't. Not only this, but it must be from a reputable institution.
Obviously there are exceptions, but a debate over useless/non-useless undergrad. degrees is essentially pointless.
Yeah sorry, but the most useless degree of all time is a business major. Bunch of pretentious a-holes who can barely write their own name, and get top jobs like the "manager" of Wally-Mart. Yeah!
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June 5th, 2008 at 09:08 pm
you forgot a couple of other worthless ones. Psych.. Mainly worthless due to lack of evidence to back their claims. You could always get into the medical industry but pretty sure you have to be a psychiatrist to do that. Marketing field also works there but most of it wouldn't really matter considering the market is saturated by wannabe self help healers. Then there is Math and English majors. Yes there are some out there. If you're not a teacher yet. Chances are you will never be one.
June 23rd, 2009 at 01:29 pm
English isn't a worthless major at all. There is and will always be a need for good writers. Just type in writing jobs and there are thousands of oppurtunities for ghostwriters, grant writers, bloggers (Yes, people pay for bloggers), etc. because people such as yourself generally watch too much TV and read too few books to be able to express yourself via the written word. Soooo blow yourself?
June 6th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Math is a useful degree. If you are averagely good with theoretical math you can get a doctorate, teach college, and easily make make 80k/yr. Or you can go into applied math and work for a telecom company, financial firm, etc.
You can also pursue grad work in physics and some types of engineering.
Either way, by earning your degree you have excellent math skills, excellent abstract reasoning skills, and are a solid programmer/logician.
In any case its far more useful than marketing, human resources, or english.
June 6th, 2009 at 07:16 am
use it. -don't inform her, abstinence only education Is she still the guy's wife Is she still the guy's wife
Thesis Writing
June 6th, 2009 at 07:15 am
intellectual excitement and can be a pathway to a liberal education.” OK, you sold me. So now I get to shell out about a hundred ... Social Work is the most expensive useless degree. $200,000 education so you can make $18,000 and live in the worst neighborhoods in the ...
Course Works
June 17th, 2009 at 02:39 pm
I agree, I have a social work degree and a big loan and NO job.
May 4th, 2009 at 07:51 am
New video ofkool Ass of densie at college promo party
March 31st, 2009 at 08:53 am
Nice list, although I don’t think media deserves to be on the list, and Lost is actually a very good show. I knew someone once who tried to get a fake degree in religion, I really didn’t understand why lol.
March 2nd, 2009 at 06:39 pm
yea math is completely useless, statistics doesnt help with any of these; medical practice, psychology, marketing, human resources, accounting, computer science, IT, sales, retail...etc
having 300+ million people in a country really does increase the chances are getting retards now doesn't it?
February 2nd, 2009 at 09:34 pm
Ok Mr. I'm a fucking retard. Math is not a worthless major, not even close. There are plenty extensions to the field, such as actuarial science, risk management, applied mathematics, statistical mechanics, and the fucking list goes on. All of these fields have the possibility of 100,000+ USD a year salary. Actuarial science happens to be one of the top 5 jobs in the world based off pay/lifestyle/and work related stress. Risk management is used widely through corporations. Please gtfo saying math is worthless jackass.
May 28th, 2009 at 06:31 pm
Lovely stuff. I laughed and laughed, I majored in Theology at Oxford University, England Paddy Power Free Bingo
May 26th, 2009 at 03:36 pm
exactly...
clearly the person who wrote this (and I don't even want to go back and find out) is highly ignorant.
People have different majors because some people really rock at things while others (this 'writer') can't even comprehend the most basic things about.
January 26th, 2009 at 03:49 am
The problem with the modern education system is that no one goes to college to learn anymore. Rocketing tuition costs and cost of living are forcing students to pick "profitable" majors, instead of doing what they love. Not to mention that the profitability of majors can change dramatically. Ten years ago, no one thought that finance-soon-to-be-investment-banker majors would be applying at Starbucks in 2008. Things change.
No major is useless, if anything, you're bettering yourself as a person. The happiest people, and the ones with the most successful personal lives, are the ones that do what they love, not the ones dreading driving home to their domestic housewife in suburbia after a long day of ass-kissing.
May 4th, 2009 at 02:08 am
I couldn't have said it better.
April 25th, 2009 at 09:30 pm
amen
February 26th, 2009 at 05:37 am
I don't think this time where students went to college for intellectual curiosity and "learning" ever existed. For the vast majority of students, college has always been about their futures. Think about it...who had access to higher education 200 years ago? Them learning things like Latin and Greek wasn't for intellectual curiosity, but was a viable field back then that major educational texts were based on. Not to mention that it carried serious social weight...making upward mobility more possible.
November 3rd, 2008 at 09:58 pm
First of all, Dave you're a douche. Many psych majors become case workers, counselors, teachers, or psychiatrists. 3:4 make good money. Some of the wealthiest people on Wall Street that I know were math majors. I also know plenty of marketing majors that went on to either become entrepreneurs, get their mbas and then become entrepreneurs, or climb the corporate ladder. English majors are pretty much fucked, better hope you have an intent to attend law school, get your phd and teach, or start writing something that people want to read enough to buy you a house and pay for your sperm to find an egg and become kids that are fed, clothed, and sent to college to hopefully not avenge your failures.
ps. did anyone else laugh hysterically when they scrolled down to the latin major?
February 15th, 2009 at 07:26 am
This is a funny list! Though all of these opinions are based on simply geting a B.A in said major. Most people who take a major in which other people deem as useless, go for their doctorate because thats were the money is at. As for Latin Majors, no one just majors in Latin. If your're not going into Seminary, then you are learning Latin because your area of study is Classics, the latin is a foundation.
January 26th, 2009 at 03:36 am
I majored in biology, minored in political science and English, and am now in law school. Being an English minor, I have several friends who were English majors, most got jobs straight out of school, and not a single one I know is "fucked". In fact, English majors have it better now than they ever did before. The market was flooded with business and fiance majors in the 90s and early 2000s. Many companies are now realizing that they would rather hire someone who can communicate well, both verbally and written- with a basic understanding of how the business world works, and teach them how their particular business is run, rather than hiring a cocky business major who can't even spell his own name. One catch, however. Most English majors I know are very smart and held good GPAs. A handful are working for sizable companies and are making good livings, another one started her own marketing firm, a few became teachers and another few went to grad school. Personally, I'm extremely glad I minored in English. My writing and verbal skills are much better because of it, and that's invaluable no matter what you do. If you're majoring in English, compliment it with a decent minor, such as computer science, econ, etc., do well, and you won't have a problem finding a job in business or elsewhere.
April 29th, 2009 at 07:54 pm
Personally, I think people who study science, engineering or math have knowledge that is more applicable to the real world and better for society as a whole. These are the people who advance technology, discover new medicine and make our lives much easier everyday. On another note, any liberal arts degree such as English or History is just as useful. You learn to think critically, speak your mind and grow as a person. After all isn't that what college is meant to achieve? It's sad that tuition costs have forced some people to unwillingly pursue profitable majors.
That said, I think it is a ridiculous stereotype when people accuse business majors of not being able to communicate. This may have been true in the past but with the growing importance of communication in the corporate world since the time of Jack Welch and GE in the 1980s, business schools have stressed the importance of communication in admissions and in the classroom. Have you ever thought about what it takes to get into a good business school? It is not easy. The top schools only accept the best students from top high schools. Do you think its possible for some of these kids to have 98 averages in high school without being exceptional English students? Not only that, most business applicants have to display leadership skills as well as academic acumen. When was the last time someone was able to become President of their school without being able to communicate? Business students at every college take a liberal arts core that includes English classes and courses DEVOTED to speech and communication. Almost every business class involves a end of semester presentation that is critiqued to the fullest extent. I advise you to sit in on a business class at a decent school before you criticize a business major's communication ability.
March 6th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Your sorry ass can't decipher the difference between complement and compliment. I'm a fucking chemical engineering major who works in finance and I write better than you do.
March 15th, 2009 at 01:34 am
rofl pwnt
March 11th, 2009 at 02:37 am
I love this post!!
November 1st, 2008 at 09:45 pm
Math majors endup writing software. Since they can think, they end up doing the hard work.
October 29th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
You've apparently confused the psychology (the study of cognition and behavior, compliant with all tenants of scientific rigor), with the "psychology" section of your local bookstore (populated with inane claims by armchair "psychologists", who are little more than charlatans).
You wouldn't see a book on alchemy or astrology taken seriously, even if they were in the chemistry or astronomy sections, respectively. So why should we think of self-help books as true psychology?
Psychology is empirically based! It has a factual basis, backed by careful observation of operational constructs! The "Psychology" you're referring to is historical, Freudian idiocy, which has no part in a modern Psych program. Psychology is a highly applicable science, and I urge you to become more informed before you go about flaming a serious practice.
December 24th, 2008 at 08:06 am
No, I'm afraid you can't put blame of the "self help" books on psycho-analysis. I agree that Freud's teachings are quite outdated but Humanism is the reason why there's a crap load of "you can do it" shit books out there.
March 21st, 2009 at 02:15 pm
Humanism?! What does that have to do with psychology? Humanism is about defining morals and ethics using a rational basis rather than resorting to the supernatural or religious texts.
November 1st, 2008 at 07:34 pm
gaaaaaaay, bro.
November 1st, 2008 at 07:53 pm
Apparently communications majors are still literate enough to use the internet.
January 14th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
gaaaaaaay, bro.
June 5th, 2008 at 08:39 pm
Double Major in Creative Writing (lol) and Rhetoric.
I will be able to write fancy papers and convince people they won't be shit.
Hooray.
June 5th, 2008 at 08:24 pm
This list is kind of ridiculous. Granted you probably can't become a CEO with a major in Film, but what Film major would really want to, that's kind of the point. I need to watch something of substance. Maybe I'll make a trip to Digitalfuntown.com and check out the new Nuttcups video that just came out
January 16th, 2009 at 07:37 am
Interestingly enough, the most cited undergraduate degrees (so law is not one) of CEO and executives are: engineering, finance, film, and economics. Film is apparently the degree that allows you to communicate with people; go figure.
February 16th, 2009 at 07:30 pm
film also lets you do pornography...
June 5th, 2008 at 08:20 pm
The only thing an Art History degree is good for is if you run out of toilet paper.
June 5th, 2008 at 08:15 pm
This is BS, I'm have a communications degree and I've gone to thousands of interviews in the last 3 years since I started looking for a job.
November 1st, 2008 at 08:29 am
"Thousands"... in three years.
You can't have been enjoying much spare time.
October 30th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Haha, Yack I think you proved his point.
"I've gone to thousands of interviews in the last three years."
Can't find one that pays decent?
October 29th, 2008 at 05:19 pm
LOL YACK, enough said
June 5th, 2008 at 08:06 pm
How does Women's Studies not make this list? That has to be the most useless degree of them all because you don't actually learn anything!!! At least with film someone can learn something.
June 23rd, 2009 at 01:24 pm
Agreed. Women's studies = bunch of hags on their period bitching about men.
November 2nd, 2008 at 11:16 pm
what the fuck, man.
not necessary at all.
January 30th, 2009 at 01:19 pm
completely necessary...
May 2nd, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Agreed. And I'm a woman. Completely necessary. Most worthless degree = Women Studies.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:42 am
Agreed. Women's Studies is totally worthless to get a job.
These people end up doing something else 99% of the time.
Now, I do know someone who went to Law School after having that degree, so it's not COMPLETELY worthless, but it's basically one of those majors that leaves you with:
OK, I completed college and have a degree.
Environmental Studies should be added to this list. Environmental Science is a MUCH better major.
June 5th, 2008 at 07:46 pm
I'm going to leave a comment to try and show how intelligent I am, while at the same time belittling the author of a blog written for sheer entertainment....I laughed, mission accomplished funny author man
June 5th, 2008 at 07:42 pm
you should major in biology or any life science. I mean you won't really get a good
job after you graduate, but you can get into teaching, research, or become a doctor. I'm doing to medical school now, and it is hard work, but the pay off is so worth it in the end!
Future Doctors of America Unite! :)
June 5th, 2008 at 07:15 pm
This is hilarious. What some of you don't seem to understand is that an undergrad degree in anything that is NOT an applied science holds very little sway in the eyes of employers.
The way you get a job out of college is not based on your major but rather on what you did with your time as an undergrad. Research, internships, and field experience is what counts. There is no such thing as a useless major - rather a useless undergrad experience.
If you want employment based SOLELY on your education and/or degree, you need at least a masters in something applied, or a PhD in something that isn't. Not only this, but it must be from a reputable institution.
Obviously there are exceptions, but a debate over useless/non-useless undergrad. degrees is essentially pointless.
June 5th, 2008 at 06:56 pm
Yeah sorry, but the most useless degree of all time is a business major. Bunch of pretentious a-holes who can barely write their own name, and get top jobs like the "manager" of Wally-Mart. Yeah!
January 15th, 2009 at 02:49 pm
uh... speaking of pretentious a-holes...