As the feds move to "forgive" - i.e., transfer - billions in student loans for college grads who supposedly “can’t” afford to pay back the heaping sums they voluntarily took out for higher education, a new poll shows a vast number of those degree-earners don’t even like the courses they took or the major they chose, with many saying they regret having earned a degree in their chosen field the first place.
That’s according to a new study out from the Federal Reserve and published by none other than the Washington Post’s Department of Data, which found that more than half of people who earned degrees in the humanities (subjects like English, history, or a foreign language) or the arts later said they regretted their major. And nearly half (45%, to be exact) of those who majored in social and behavioral sciences said they had the same regrets.
Over a third who majored in education, business, law and life sciences said they wished they'd picked a different area of study, while about a quarter of those who studied engineering said the same – the lowest of any category, but still.
Related: WH Press Sec Refuses to Say Who Will Foot the Bill For 'Forgiven' Student Loans
Despite the fact that millions of American teens and young adults are taking out tens of thousands in crippling student loans to study subjects they don’t even end up liking, all for degrees they ultimately wish they hadn’t pursued, American culture continues to encourage this cycle of idiocy ad nauseum, pushing four years of post-high school “education” in “credit-fillers” like Grecian art and modern dance theory, all for a piece of paper that has begun to matter even less than it used to without an even more debt-inducing master’s degree to go along with it.
All to the tune of about $12,000-$44,000. A year.
Perhaps instead of transferring others' debt onto those who didn't sign up for it, we should stop encouraging 17-year-olds with no life experience to go into astronomical debt studying things they end up not even liking.
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