| overman1 said: With your first point right, education in the US is defintely not a free market since a great chuck of it is state controlled and regulated. While you are right about the availabilty of broad jobs. my friend who has a physics degree is married with 2 children. That is a factor for him being unable to properly pursue a PhD. now my friends aside, how many college student study in college for the sciences. if a student were to study finance or accounting. What are the chaces for a job despite the broadness of the field? |
If a student prioritizes job security, and chooses to major in an unsecure field, then it is his or her fault for making a poor decision considering his or her value of job security. There is a demand for students in STEM fields, but unfortunately there is no domestic supply, so corporations and even governments (look at NASA's employees, for example) look outside of the U.S for qualified persons. As for financing and accounting, both are relatively high demand fields which have experienced rising equilibrium prices as the years have gone by (they are more valuable and therefore paid more.) Honestly, the focus in the job search shouldn't be only about the degree though. Companies are looking for individuals with unique qualities that can bring much more than just their degree. The degree is the pre-requisite, not the determinant.
