Comments by "Louis Giokas" (@louisgiokas2206) on "11 Million College Graduates Sent to Rural Areas? China Faces Grim Job Prospects for Graduates" video.

  1. On this topic I see a lot of college grads with degrees in "soft" fields in the reporting from China. This surprises me. I was taking some graduate classes in statistics a few years back and there were lots of Chinese students. Some would admit they would prefer to be studying something else, like marketing, but their parents insisted that they go into a STEM field. Sound advice, actually. The issues these Chinese grads are facing are the same as in the US, but the job market here is in much better shape than in China. So, while they may not get a job in their major, they can get a job. Frankly, there are too many people with these non-core majors that, as the second girl in the video found out, just about anyone can do without the degree. Many of these fields have no place in a university curriculum. Copywriting, entrepreneurship and similar are really only valid in a vocational business school. What the universities, in China and the US, have done is to offer these inappropriate subjects to expand their market. That is all. They dupe people like the woman in the video.
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  2.  @plumeria66  You majored in philosophy, interesting. Did you do graduate studies or get a professional degree (law, MBA, etc.)? As for "kids" being duped, I have to disagree with you, with a caveat. That is, parents are also involved in these decisions. Either the parents are paying, or they at least acquiesce, assuming the student gets a loan for their studies. I will give a typical case. The son of a friend of mine got an English degree from and expensive school. He had well over $100K in debt (this is in the US). He asked his father for help when he couldn't get a sufficient job. Hs father, who was very successful, said he would only help if he went back and got a practical degree.
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  3.  @SixOhFive  I have to agree with you there. There are some other professional degrees (such as architecture) that have some relevance, but their demand is limited. In many cases, the schools offering these degrees are selective and limit the size of classes. In the liberal arts, there are few employment opportunities. We need some people in these fields, primarily as teachers. From a practitioner point of view, they are a total bust. The only successful ones are those that ones go on to get a law degree or an MBA. Again, with limited job opportunities.
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