Re: OT: Top Five Degrees

On 31 Aug 2006 10:49:39 -0700, "Jenny6833A" <Jenny6833A@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

AOL is touting one of it's badly padded articles, "Degrees Through The
Decades" by Jennifer Merritt. It's not worth reading. However, it
does list the "Top Five Degrees" by decade. By "Top Five" Merritt
means 'degrees most awarded.'

1970s: Education, Social Sciences and History, Business, English, and
(in 5th place) Biology.

1980s: Business, Education, Social Sciences and History, Health, and
(in 5th place) Engineering.

1990s: Business, Social Sciences and History, Education, Health, and
Psychology.

2000s (so far): Social Sciences and History, Business, Education,
Psychology, and Visual & Performing Arts.


Note that Biology and Engineering each made the list just once, but not
recently, and then only in fifth place. In 35 years, nothing else of a
scientific nature made the list at all.

Sad.


Biology undergraduate degrees are largely students seeking admission
to medical school, not students seeking to become biologists. In
recent decades, the students have discovered that they can get far
higher grad point averages majoring in Psychology then in the hard
core sciences and upper division undergraduate biology enrollments
have suffered dramatically.

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