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Starter Wiggin posted:-Why is zoology such a terrible undergraduate degree, just for my own information. There is an issue with science degrees not having any job prospects. Biology degrees are the worst of the bunch with many graduates and no jobs. A chemistry degree isn't of much value unless you use it to get a Ph.D for a chance at some post doctorate work. For earning potential and usefulness profession degrees like engineer, surveying, architecture or specialised medical degrees actually lead to careers. Doing a degree with little or no use is just fulfilling academic interests. That's fine if you don't mind burning a few years of your life and if you didn't clock up any debt. However if you end up with a lot of debt and a minimum wage job (if you find employment) is a poor financial position to be in. My opinion is that getting a degree for only Peace Corps is potentially inflexible and not planning beyond your time there. However what I do not understand is why you want to focus on zoology when the requirements to strengthen an application states the following degrees: agricultural economics, forestry, environment and foreign languages with specific requests for french and spanish. What they have provided is a list of what they want so why not focus on something that gives a high probably of being accepted while also completing some papers which may be more applicable outside of the Peace Corps? http://www.peacecorps.gov/volunteer/learn/howvol/addsteps/
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Jeb Bush 2012 posted:This is straight-up wrong. People with degrees (the vast majority of whom aren't directly "using" their degrees in the sense you guys talk about) have substantially larger average lifetime earnings than people without them, because plenty of jobs require or prefer *a* degree without actually needing any one in particular. (there are confounding factors here, like the fact that people who get degrees tend to be people who would have had better opportunities anyway, but pretty much every plausible estimate of the degree premium has it a lot higher than the cost of going to college, even for the "useless" subjects goons like to sneer at) Your statistic works if you accumulate little in the way of debt while studying. Ending up with large loans especially those the size of a mortgage negate the increased lifetime earnings. That is something that academic institutions don't tell students. Also the jobs that just need a degree have been in decline and the advice would be fine if this was the 80's.
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