Top College Majors

As the original Liberal Arts purpose of colleges disintegrates, colleges have been becoming more and more vocational. Here is a list of college majors for 2019. I would imagine the trend has been even more vocational since then.

We have to go to #13, Psychology, to even get the first (arguably) “Liberal Arts” subject. Anyway, it is not obviously vocational. Out of the Top 20, there are only two non-vocational majors, Psychology and English, totaling 4.3% of majors. English often does end up being vocational, basically as a schoolteacher.

Increasingly, more overtly vocational schools, teaching computer science for example, can take the place of these typically mediocre college offerings, at half the time and one third the cost. “Polytechnic” universities can teach science and engineering, with MIT an example of this. What is the difference between a “vocational school” teaching trucking and one teaching civil engineering? The latter is much more complicated of course, suitable for ambitious high-IQ people. But, they are both vocational schools.

The point of all this is to get Men, mostly, to achieve an adequate income without wasting a lot of time and money on today’s four-year colleges. Women should not go to college, generally speaking. In practice, probably 5% are actually suited for it. Student debt alone is a marriage-killer for many women through the entire decade of their 20s; and many still have debt after that.

Since they don’t have to get degrees in Mechanical Engineering, women can actually study the “Liberal Arts,” mostly at home with their fathers. This is history, government, literature and fine arts — which most women would probably think is a lot more interesting than frittering their youth and beauty away designing crankshafts.

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