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Poli-Sci is a great major for someone with a passion for government service- whether to state/local government or federal. Some possible areas of employment are: campaign work/staff, working in an elected official's hometown or capital office, think tank work, lobbyist, Department of State (foreign & US positions), government consulting, etc. Law school would be a popular graduate degree, as would a master's in public policy or poli-sci. Mastering a second language- particurlarly one that is in demand like Arabic or Chinese- and having multiple relevant internships during school increase likelihood of good job placement after graduation.
She can combine it with Public Administration, education (yeah, I know systems are laying off right now in some areas but the boomers are now retiring from teaching), government jobs.
All a college degree ever really did was get you in the door.
Poly Sci is a good prerequisite for Grad school. It is good for Public Administratrion or Law school. I would imagine that just the BA can open some doors in the Government sector...
I knew a VP that had a degree in "gym". It all depends. Too may people work on getting a degree and not networking. In business there are a shockingly huge amount of people that are in positions and have degrees completely unrelated. The degree enabled them to be eligible for the position.
BTW, the VP was a great one, a people person, understood the business and was well respected. He heard the occasional joke about him studying "gym" but the guys with more prestigious degrees didn't perform as well.
90% of the utility of a degree (any degree) is in the having of it.
You've certified that you'll stick with something and jump through all those hoops...
and (presumably) that you have at least a minimal degree of some academic skill.
Aside from some very high level technical areas...
there are very few people will have employment at age 40 that even remotely relates to what they went to college for.
In fact, those who do stick with such are generally looked down on as being complacent.
Poli-Sci is a great major for someone with a passion for government service- whether to state/local government or federal. Some possible areas of employment are: campaign work/staff, working in an elected official's hometown or capital office, think tank work, lobbyist, Department of State (foreign & US positions), government consulting, etc. Law school would be a popular graduate degree, as would a master's in public policy or poli-sci. Mastering a second language- particurlarly one that is in demand like Arabic or Chinese- and having multiple relevant internships during school increase likelihood of good job placement after graduation.
Any degree can be useful or useless, it depends on the person, and also quite a bit of luck.
Yes, very true. A friend of mine graduated from UT with a political science degree. He joined the ROTC program while in school, and now he's a special agent with the OSI in the Air Force. He's doing quite well.
But as the post I quoted said, it's pretty relative to the person and their circumstances.
Asking a question like this on this forum is what's useless. They will tell you that any degree is useless.
Computer science? BAD. It's being outsourced. Chemistry or Bio? BAD. You will only work in labs and won't get paid much. Business? BAD, unless you go to an Ivie League. Psychology ? Hell no. Liberal arts? Who hires you with that degree?
Or so they say.
And the list goes on. Unless you major in "hard sciences" or want to become a doctor, you're not gonna get anything but "useless" here.
Any degree is useful if you know how to use it. Period. Can't stand it when people attempt to water-down other people's accomplishments. Sorry, just had to throw this in.
Yes, I'd also say it is not wise to base major life decisions off of internet debates from people you do not know.
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