In your opinion, what the the five majors that you would say are the most "useful" and helpful to society in general.
Mine 5 are Business, Science (Bio, Chem, and Phys), Engineering, Medicine, and Teaching
2007-09-01 04:12:39 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
Out of those, I would put medicine and teaching at the top and business at the bottom. I went with physics, personally.
2007-09-01 04:20:04 · answer #1 · answered by eri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This really gets to what you value in society. It also assumes that a major is a preparation for a particular career. Some of the most important and meaningful people in society have studied things like history and philosophy, then have gotten jobs doing things which made society a better place. Medicine, by the way, isn't a major in college (neither is law), so I would have to exclude that.
With that out of the way, I would say English (if you are in an English-speaking country), Modern Languages (both of those first two is that I think the ability to communicate with others is essential to improving society), Physics, Math and Engineering. It isn't that I don't think that business and teaching are important careers, but I'm not sure how much value is added in many educational programs. For example, since most school teachers (who have studied education) are not better teachers than most professors (who have not), I will assume that the study of education, while required for someone who wants to become a teacher, is not really very useful. Similarly, if I look at some of the most successful businesspeople, they don't have business degrees. So (even though I teach business) I have to wonder how much value we add to the field.
The five things I mentioned provide basic skills which must be taught to be effective. No one just intuitively knows physics, without being taught it. No one could be an effective engineer without having learned its principles.
2007-09-01 12:53:00 · answer #2 · answered by neniaf 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
well important i would not say is the right word, but useful or difficult in a way i would say:
Law
Business
Medicine
Teaching
Engineering
(not in order of importance)
2007-09-01 11:31:24 · answer #3 · answered by nothing 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sociology, teaching, science, technology and math.
2007-09-01 11:31:21 · answer #4 · answered by Alan S 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋