Business degrees bad for value vs. to Social and natural science and arts - NYU Study (1 Viewer)

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"“Growing numbers of students are sent to college at increasingly higher costs, but for a large proportion of them the gains in critical thinking, complex reasoning and written communication are either exceedingly small or empirically non-existent,” write the authors, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, sociologists at New York University and the University of Virginia respectively.
More than a third of the students, who attended 24 different universities among a range of types, graduated without knowing how to tell the difference between fact and opinion or make a clear written argument, the authors claim.

Students majoring in business, education, social work and communications showed the least gains in learning, and those in the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences and mathematics the most."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/...-million?showallcomments=true#end-of-comments

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Re: Business degrees bad for value vs. to Social and natural science and arts - NYU S

I like this - Commerce (apart from accounting) didn't really teach me much about how logic or anything that however Mathematics was quite over-vigorous.