Yahoo U
In an article incredible even for Yahoo’s low standards, Yahoo urges parents to discourage their children from the following majors, which offer relatively poor employment prospects:
- Architecture
- Fine Arts
- Philosophy and Religious Studies
- Anthropology and Archaeology
- Film, Video, and Photographic Arts
Instead, Yahoo recommends:
- Accounting
- Elementary Education
- Finance
- Business Administration and Management
- Health Care Administration
When your child is old, do you really think they’ll be happy that they studied Health Care Administration when they had dreamed of building wonderful buildings or studying lost civilizations?
Each of the five recommended majors has a stock photo picture of a happy graduate. The accountant, teacher, finance major, and health care admin are all women. The young manager is not.
Whatever Danielle Bundell was paid to write this, it wasn’t enough. (She has a fresh degree in journalism, not accounting.)