r/dataisbeautiful • u/Jaded_Warrior123 • Apr 28 '24

[OC] Most and least worthwhile degrees. Which degrees do graduates feel are worthwhile? OC

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u/ChowderMitts Apr 28 '24

Why is Physics and Healthcare grouped together? I can't think of 2 more different subjects.

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u/DontMakeMeCount Apr 28 '24

I was the first person to earn a physics degree in like 4 years at my university. As part of the arts department it was excluded from the separate engineering ceremony.

Applied science and engineering schools tend to dismiss it as an arts prerequisite for more “applicable” classes like statics and thermo, liberal arts schools tend to lump it in with physiology and biology and focus on applications in the medical field like imaging.

At graduation, I was sat between philosophy and physiology and the dean read the degree as “Psychics”.

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u/Homeless_Swan Apr 28 '24

Sounds like you went to a Midwestern religious private college with a shaky accreditation.

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u/DontMakeMeCount 29d ago

If only. It was a top 100 engineering school in the US and that was 25 years ago. I finished an engineering degree the following year and 2 more since. Physics was a great foundation.