{"id":5115,"date":"2017-11-14T09:02:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T16:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/?p=5115"},"modified":"2017-11-14T09:02:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T16:02:29","slug":"when-english-majors-earn-more-than-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/when-english-majors-earn-more-than-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"When English Majors Earn More Than Engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0<a id=\"ContentPlaceHolderDefault_SectionContent_AuthorLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vault.com\/contributors-network\/derek-loosvelt\/\">Derek Loosvelt<\/a>\u00a0| November 07, 2017<br \/>\nRe-posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vault.com\">Vault<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s commonly thought that if you major in a so-called STEM area (science, technology, engineering, math), then you&#8217;re nearly assured of landing gainful employment upon graduation. And that if you do very well in one these majors, and go to a highly prestigious school, then you&#8217;re more or less assured of receiving gainful employment with a very prestigious employer, perhaps even with one of the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/10\/26\/560136311\/how-5-tech-giants-have-become-more-like-governments-than-companies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frightful Five<\/a>&#8221; (Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook; &#8220;frightful&#8221; because they&#8217;re now &#8220;collectively more powerful than many governments&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, it&#8217;s commonly thought that if you major in some &#8220;useless&#8221; area of study like English, history, or philosophy, then you&#8217;re all but assured of landing in your parent&#8217;s basement upon graduation, and that this holds even if you receive a diploma from a school with ivy eating away at its walls.<\/p>\n<p>However, if you look at the numbers, these are nothing but misconceptions&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vault.com\/blog\/admit-one-vaults-mba-law-school-and-college-blog\/english-and-history-majors-do-not-fear-you-might-make-more-than-math-and-econ-students-over-you-career?utm_source=WCU_Letter&amp;utm_medium=Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=11_08_2017&amp;referer_ID=7778&amp;utm_source=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=98451\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0Derek Loosvelt\u00a0| November 07, 2017 Re-posted from Vault It&#8217;s commonly thought that if you major in a so-called STEM area (science, technology, engineering, math), then you&#8217;re nearly assured of landing gainful employment upon graduation. 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