Worst college majors: don’t study art history or the Bible

November 26, 2014
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While I am skeptical of using the Payscale data to judge individual institutions, benchmarking majors across schools is much less problematic. The list fits with what you might suspect about a) the cognitive abilities of students in these majors and b) what these majors might earn in the marketplace.

http://www.kiplinger.com/slideshow/college/T012-S001-worst-college-majors-for-your-career/index.html

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