00:00the most regretted college degrees in
00:03college majors that's what we're going
00:04to be talking about today in this video
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00:37ziprecruiter came out with a list of
00:41that people regret the most so they've
00:44got a lot of internal data and they
00:45basically send out surveys to a lot of
00:47the different people who register on
00:50and if you didn't know ziprecruiter is
00:51basically a website that will help you
00:52get a job and they basically just ask
00:54people you know do you regret your
00:56college degree or not they sent this out
00:58to a bunch of different people with a
00:59bunch of different degrees
01:00and they released some of the data for
01:03us now i wish we had access to all of
01:05the data that would be great
01:06but here are the results we're going to
01:08talk about it and i'm going to talk
01:10some of these things are so important
01:12for you and your future decision
01:14number five on the list is going to be
01:17now communications is the study of how
01:19to communicate information effectively
01:22areas and platforms so for instance how
01:24to communicate information
01:26on youtube on video for instance or
01:28through radio or through writing or
01:32or in different public industries as
01:33well such as maybe public relations or
01:36all sorts of other different things it
01:38is kind of hard to define what
01:39communications is because of the fact
01:41that it's so broad and it's so
01:42general now if i was making this video
01:44back in the 1980s which i probably
01:46wouldn't be making a video on youtube
01:48back in the 1980s but if i was
01:50you would probably be able to get this
01:52degree and it would be no problem
01:54whatsoever i might have told you that
01:55this degree isn't bad at all it's a
01:57great career and you should definitely
01:58get into it and i probably would have
02:00that was back in a time where you could
02:02pretty much get any degree and you'd be
02:04because all companies wanted to see is
02:06that you had a degree sure some of them
02:07were a little bit better than others
02:09but overall you just get any degree and
02:11it didn't matter and i agree
02:12communication as a skill is one of the
02:14most important things that you can study
02:17right now i'm communicating to you i'm
02:21this to you using a camera and using
02:23youtube however now that we have more
02:25we know this is one of those degrees
02:27that's a little bit overrated there's
02:29quite a few people who graduate with
02:30this degree every single year
02:32and unfortunately it's not as good as it
02:34should be now on this list it comes in
02:3727 of people who graduated with a degree
02:40completely regretting it and the main
02:42reason for their regret
02:43is because it's too general now that's
02:46great because i've been saying this for
02:49about communications i've made several
02:51videos on this i even made fun of them a
02:53little bit in one of my first videos
02:54way back like eight months ago and what
02:57do you know the reason so many people
02:58regret this degree is because it's
03:00general the reason you go to college is
03:02to learn a specialized skill that will
03:04prepare you for a career in the real
03:06world when you learn something like
03:07communications you're not really a
03:09specialist in anything you're kind of
03:11a generalist now let's compare these
03:13numbers to the least regretted degree
03:15which is of course computer science big
03:18computer science comes in at about 12.78
03:21of the people who graduated with it
03:23regret it so over double the amount of
03:24people if you compare a communications
03:26degree with a computer science degree
03:28now you might think oh that's not that
03:31of people regret it that means that 73
03:34were actually okay with it well as it
03:36turns out it has a lot to do with the
03:38framing of the question itself in the
03:40this is why survey data isn't the best
03:42it's because the way that you frame the
03:44question is going to
03:45seriously influence the results so to
03:47compare this to another really popular
03:49site that's in the same niche which is
03:51about 66 of people who were surveyed
03:54regretted their college degree choice so
03:56what's important to see here is that
03:59of communications graduates regretted
04:02their choice when you compare that to
04:04that's a lot especially considering the
04:08students graduate with a communications
04:09related degree every single year
04:11now this major does have a reputation of
04:14being one of the easiest ones that you
04:15can kind of just coast by on
04:17that's why a lot of student athletes
04:18choose communications because they know
04:20that they're going to be leaving in a
04:21year or two and they're going to be
04:22making like 10 million dollars a year so
04:24they don't need to use their
04:25communications degree
04:26and it's one of those degrees where just
04:28try to put yourself in
04:29a business owner or a hiring manager's
04:32shoes try to use a little bit of empathy
04:34they're going to be looking at your
04:35resume they're going to see a
04:36communications degree and they're going
04:38to just ask themselves how is this
04:39person going to help me how is this
04:42going to justify their you know 50 000
04:44salary or whatever it is
04:46i can't just pay them 50 000 and then
04:48they just take that money and you know i
04:50don't get anything out of it they have
04:52at the very least recuperate that 50 000
04:54so they're not a net negative
04:56number four on the list is going to be
04:59and law now social science is going to
05:01be a bunch of different ones like
05:03economics political science history
05:05etc now i think the reason that they
05:09with law is because of the fact that a
05:10lot of social science majors actually do
05:12end up going on and applying to law
05:14school so with this one
05:1629 of the people regretted their
05:18decision and the main reasons were that
05:19it's too general and practical
05:21hard to find a job without further study
05:23so there was a lot of reasons for that
05:26major branches here are going to be
05:28political science geography
05:29economics psychology sociology and
05:32anthropology now out of those i can tell
05:34you that economics is by far
05:35the best one i did a whole video on that
05:37one that one's actually pretty good
05:40now i think a lot of these as a subject
05:42are extremely interesting
05:43a lot of them i take extra classes in
05:45for instance i think history might be my
05:47favorite subject and i do see a lot of
05:49value in studying these different
05:50subjects however when it comes to going
05:52to college getting a degree going forty
05:54thousand dollars in debt and spending
05:55four years of your life
05:56studying it a lot of the time it's not
05:59going to be worth it because the purpose
06:01of going to college is to prepare
06:02yourself for a career
06:04and a lot of the time you're not going
06:05to be able to get a career in anything
06:07related to these subjects a lot of these
06:10general many of them are also just
06:12impractical very interesting information
06:14you might even be able to use it in
06:16other parts of your life but when it
06:17comes to actually having a career
06:19a lot of the time you're just not going
06:20to be able to use that information so
06:22these might make good double majors good
06:24minors you might you know want to study
06:27but i wouldn't just simply major in one
06:31it's going to be really hard for you to
06:32find a job unless you have a really good
06:34plan going into it and you know exactly
06:36what you're doing and you'll see
06:38i'm doing a video on this pretty soon a
06:39lot of these majors they'll end up
06:41graduating and then they find out that
06:44they can't get a job and what do they do
06:45they go to grad school because that's
06:47pretty much their only choice it's not
06:49because they wanted to go to grad school
06:51it's because they didn't really have a
06:52choice number three on the list is going
06:55education this one is really sad to see
06:57i hate to see this one here i think
06:59everybody knows what education is
07:01they go into this in order to become
07:02teachers i wish they were paid more but
07:05aren't now for this one 31 percent of
07:08people regretted it and the reasons were
07:10and job satisfaction as well as limited
07:13job opportunities now i wish they were
07:14paid more but unfortunately
07:16they aren't and i have to give you guys
07:17my honest opinion for most people i
07:19would not recommend going into this
07:21low pay job satisfaction and on top of
07:23that there's not much room for
07:25advancement now according to the
07:26national education association
07:28teacher pay actually fell by three
07:31percent between 2006 and 2016. so they
07:35were getting paid a certain amount
07:36and inflation went up so that certain
07:38amount is actually not even the same
07:41but teacher pay actually fell by three
07:43percent it didn't catch up with
07:45it actually lowered by three percent in
07:49teachers on average in the u.s make
07:52of what other professionals with related
07:54educational backgrounds make
07:56and the united states had the lowest
07:59pay out of 28 different nations that
08:02were surveyed in that particular study
08:04now on top of this about one in five
08:05teachers actually work a
08:07second job on top of their normal
08:09teaching job and that's probably because
08:11they don't make enough money
08:12number two on the list is going to be
08:14biological and physical
08:16sciences now this is one i've been
08:20i've gotten quite a bit of hate on this
08:22one i've been trying to you know tell
08:23you guys in the nicest way possible
08:26but people still get triggered in the
08:27comments when it comes to
08:29stem degrees right everybody thinks stim
08:31is good stem equals good but
08:33the truth is there are some types of
08:35science degrees specifically the
08:37s and stem that aren't as good as a lot
08:41stem degrees and biological and physical
08:43sciences is a perfect example of that so
08:45it's not as much that this one is
08:47horrible you know when you look at the
08:49actual statistics on it it's about
08:51average i'd say but i think people are
08:53just really surprised because they have
08:55expectation that it's going to be really
08:57good because of the fact that it is a
09:00and then the reality just doesn't meet
09:02the expectation unfortunately so this
09:04one could include you know evolutionary
09:06biology microbiology all kinds of
09:08different biology related degrees
09:10so 35 of people regretted this degree
09:12and the main reasons were because it's
09:14hard to find a job without advanced
09:18so this actually happened to a close
09:19friend of mine she was planning on going
09:21to med school so she majored in biology
09:24the med school thing didn't work out
09:25plans changed she graduated with a
09:27biology bachelor's degree
09:29and unfortunately she couldn't find a
09:32job she was really shocked i mean even
09:34she you know did all kinds of extra
09:35stuff she was an excellent student
09:37she couldn't find a job so what did she
09:39do she went back to graduate school
09:41she didn't really want to but it kind of
09:44and she eventually got a doctorate so in
09:47my opinion and i've studied this stuff a
09:49lot i've really spent like hundreds if
09:51not thousands of hours of looking at
09:53this stuff when it comes to a bachelor
09:56unless you are somebody who's really
09:59good at planning things out
10:00you want to make sure that you secure
10:02the bag with your four-year degree and
10:04what do i mean by that
10:05i mean you want to make sure that you
10:06can get a job with just that degree
10:09if at that point you choose to go back
10:11to school get a master's or a doctorate
10:13to make more money or to have better
10:16that's great that's awesome but it's
10:17because you chose to do that
10:19not because you had to there's actually
10:21a lot of great opportunities with some
10:23of the stem degrees when it comes to
10:25masters and doctoral level degrees
10:27for instance there's quite a few
10:28engineering degrees where you're going
10:29to have a lot of opportunities and
10:31you're gonna be able to get paid more
10:33with a masters instead of a bachelor's
10:35but the thing there is
10:36is they chose to get a master's they
10:38didn't have to get it this is a
10:40very important distinction that makes
10:43because if a ton of people are more or
10:45less just forced to get a master's or a
10:48not only does that make the university
10:49more money so it kind of incentivizes
10:51them to put people in that kind of
10:54but on top of that your bachelor's is
10:57even less and it's almost like a masters
11:00is the new bachelors so that is always a
11:03huge red flag in my opinion when you see
11:06and you're not able to get a job with
11:08just a bachelor's and they're saying oh
11:10you can you know get a job with a
11:11master's no problem now i know some
11:13people are going to comment down below
11:14what if your plan is to be a biology
11:16professor and you need a phd for that
11:18okay awesome if you have a really good
11:21plan going in you know exactly what you
11:24in order to get to your goal that's
11:26great don't let my video dissuade you at
11:29i get it i'm not a dream killer here you
11:31should do your thing do what you're
11:32passionate about i'm just saying that
11:34for most people it's not going to be a
11:36number one on the list is going to be
11:40languages so i think everybody knows
11:42what this is it's going to be the
11:43english language of course and also
11:45studying foreign languages
11:47now in one of my most popular videos the
11:48most worthless degrees
11:50i made fun of several different degrees
11:53was foreign languages now i got a lot of
11:56angry comments from people who study
11:59and i think it's probably because i
12:00didn't really explain myself that well
12:02it's kind of just a joke video
12:03but i'd say the second most hate
12:05comments i got out of all of them
12:07in that video were from people who
12:08studied foreign languages
12:10so many people said stuff like oh
12:12there's no way you can learn how to read
12:14and write without going to college or
12:15there's no way you can become a
12:17translator without a degree
12:18i can't tell you how many different
12:19people said stuff like that well here
12:22guys here's the data right here english
12:24and foreign languages
12:2542 of people regret the degree and it's
12:28because it's impractical and there's
12:29limited job opportunities
12:31so this means that four times as many
12:33people regret getting a language degree
12:35then they regret getting a computer
12:36science degree this is the
12:38number one degree that starbucks
12:41actually i made that up but there might
12:43be a little bit of truth to that now
12:44some people might say hey you should get
12:46english degree because you want to be a
12:48professional writer let's see did george
12:50martin get an english degree no how
12:53about the author of harry potter jk
12:55nope english is one of those subjects
12:57where you can learn all you need to know
12:58about it by studying it online
13:00or just by reading other people's works
13:02especially if you want to become an
13:04author it's another one of those degrees
13:05that i think a lot of really smart
13:07people tend to be attracted to it and
13:10so don't fall into this trap study it on
13:13minor in it if you're passionate about
13:14it maybe even double major in it but do
13:16not major in this one unless you have a
13:18really really good plan going in you
13:20know exactly what you're going for if
13:21you haven't done it already go ahead
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