Students are often told to “learn the subjects that will best land them a job when they graduate,” said Peter Cappelli in The Wall Street Journal. That has boosted specialized majors like hospital financing and casino management. But flocking to “fields where the job market is hot right now” may not be the best strategy in the long run. (click below to read more)
“The trouble is that nobody can predict where the jobs will be—not the employers, not the schools, not the government officials who are making such loud calls for vocational training.” Choose your school not by its majors, but by its graduation rates, job-placement rates, and starting salary statistics. And remember the pitfalls of specialization: “It may be worse to have the wrong career focus in college than having no career focus—because skills for one career often can’t be used elsewhere.”
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