An unscientific poll of math majors- one of those jobs of yours with a 100% employment rate- reveals the answer to be “to learn mathematics”
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do you need to go to uni to learn math? What is value added for learning math at uni, and is it worth the tuition? // I'm from country where studies are free. And would be wary of going to uni if I had to pay high tuition.
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Here in the US, it is required of many jobs to have a degree or sometimes even graduate degree to qualify for that job. you don’t have to go to uni to learn math. But you do have to in order to get those jobs. What quantian misses is those that go to uni to learn is to get a job
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Those that go to learn math go so they can get a math-related job. What most colleges and universities fail at is helping students realize that if they don’t get a grad degree their bachelor’s is often useless w/out extra certification. Math would prob become math ed...
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This is wrong, I learned math because I enjoy math and want to understand it more deeply. If I enjoyed history more, I would have studied that instead. And most people who go to non-MD/JD grad school don't do it to get a job, they do it to become a professor.
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Which is a job.
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And that may be the case with PhD’s, but there’s another thing called a Master’s program. And some get PhD’s to become professors so that they have access to research grants. And research is also a job.
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if you pay to get a masters you are an absolute mark, just join the corresponding PhD program and drop out after a year and they give you one.
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This is hilarious. But consider that there may well be people in the university system either rich enough or with low enough ambition that paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend 4 years in an academic nerd friend group seems like a good idea.
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Also there are some that legitimately are there to party, play sports, etc. Some industries (engineering, law, medicine) require a degree. You are disrupting one industry but there are many more components of the university ecosystem that deserve to be exposed and dismantled.
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I think you'd be getting more traction on doubling down on the fact that programming is actually a trade, not a profession, and you shouldn't need a CS degree to do it.
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top tier schools put a lot of resources into the "career planning" office. at least that's how it was in the 90s when i was an undergrad...
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Return on Investment point of view vs pure value of academism?
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