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My field is research biology (in Pharma, not academia where the pay situation is truly dismal), and the jobs are severely lacking. Even STEM is becoming saturat

• dalke 11y ago
  STEM is a pretty meaningless term. Most of those who say there should be more people with STEM training don't really want more people trained in general relativity, paleontology, deep-sea biology, etc. I suspect it mostly means they want the government to pay for the types of problem solvers that businesses want, and enough of them to keep the wages low. I think that's implicit in how hnamazon123 refers to ROI. Who gets the return - the student, businesses, and/or the country - for investing in someone's education?
• dikdik 11y ago
  There's a comment above talking about a sociology degree making 30k. I knew lots of Biology and Chemistry majors who were making that or less right out of undergrad in industry. But we did it wrong! It's our fault. I guess in a couple decades when there's a total of 2 majors that will actually return your investment we will actually be able to have a productive talk about college costs. Until then, those at the bottom will continue to be told it's their fault.