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[Seamus Fermanagh]

Communication is about the most important thing to an employer. Most degrees are not creating professionals, and the few that are tend to have post graduate components (CPA for accountants, specialisation for medicos)....

If you want to virtually guarantee zero marketability after college, get a comm degree. As a comm prof I would spend the better part of two years honing people's knowledge of communication etc. Then they'd graduate, with knowledge in a field that virtually ALL employers publicly claimed they couldn't get enough of, and barely 1 in 50 would find jobs in a related field or be hired because of that skill set. Most of them had to break into completely unrelated fields or get a master's in a completely different field to get hired as companies promptly ignored the very skill set they publicly claimed to desire. Eventually, the comm skill set would let these grads do well -- equalling or surpassing other similar groups of non-comm grads in terms of promotions and the like -- but in terms of out-the-door marketability it was useless.

The reputation for Comm, Theater, and English is pretty simple -- degrees for people who don't have the chutz-pah to go out and do something but wanted a safe secure party environment for a few years. That "rep" is over-simplified and a bit unfair, but it still persists and does affect hiring choices.

[Strike For The South]

As a college studnet I can saftley say I only care about winning the Big XII.

Eveything else is seconday.

As it petains to the topic, there are plenty of mouth beathing retards who know how to build a bridge or could tell you how your digestive tract works but there are far fewer people who you'd like to be around.

Social education tumps book learning everytime.

Whats that old saying. It's not about what you know it's about who you know.

[GoreBag]

there are far fewer people who you'd like to be around.

True in all circumstances and locales.

[Papewaio]

I'm not confusing the ability to communicate ones professional skills with having a communications degree. Content still beats the wrapping, but an inability to communicate is not good. A PhD in a coma or an extreme introvert does not a great corporate professional make. The extreme introvert might make a good boffin however and there is more introverts in IT then other parts of our business.

In Aus we start off with our majors, we don't do a general year or two. It is straight in. That is why you can be a graduate at 20/21 years old with a B.Sc and that is the norm. Engineering degrees take 4 years to complete after finishing high school.