Are You Smarter Than A College Student?

JENNY LEE
Features Editor

Every child in present-day times is expected to attend college. Failing high school simply means going to community college. However, college is no cheap road and sometimes, students graduate college and obtain jobs that are irrelevant to their area of study.

As students with a degree in higher education become more prevalent, employment prerequisites have gradually climbed. Students who dive into college with undeclared majors should be especially careful; those with undeclared majors often spend additional semesters or years in college in order to meet the classes required for the major they eventually choose. As a result, student debt also piles up.

Forbes published an article in 2012 on “the 10 worst college majors,” determined by unemployment rates and low initial earnings. The ten listed majors are listed in the following order: anthropology and archeology; film, video, and photographic arts; fine arts; philosophy and religious studies; liberal arts; music; physical fitness and parks recreation; commercial art and graphic design; history; and English language and literature.

Of course, there is more to the story than simply numbers. Liberal arts majors often do fine because many careers acknowledge the fact that applying information across interdisciplinary studies is a necessary skill. In fact, most are satisfied with where they end up. No major guarantees employments, but certain majors do guarantee better opportunities.