What You Study Matters: IHE article

[polly_mer]

"Future earnings can depend more on the major pursued than on the level of the degree. Students also need to be aware of differences in earnings, by college, for the same degree in the same field of study," the report said.

https://insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/10/14/report-first-year-earnings-vary-degree-program

[mythbuster]

It's a straw man article. Comparing RNs from a community college to a B.A. in English. There is a reason Avenue Q had the song "What can you do with a B.A. in English?". 
What if we compare the two 10 years down the road? If neither have further schooling, my money would be on the BA having a solid career, while the RN likely has burned out of nursing by that point.

[polly_mer]

It's a straw man article. Comparing RNs from a community college to a B.A. in English. There is a reason Avenue Q had the song "What can you do with a B.A. in English?". 
What if we compare the two 10 years down the road? If neither have further schooling, my money would be on the BA having a solid career, while the RN likely has burned out of nursing by that point.

Please cite research to support your assertions because that's not what I immediately recall from research conducted in the past decade.


What I immediately recall is people who were already middle-class who graduate from name-brand schools often do fine as do people who go to college in subjects where college is the standard career prep. The people who get credentials for jobs that don't exist where they want to live and the people who think the cheap, checkbox degrees have value tend to struggle for quite a while.