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China plans to kill off unproductive college majors

China works on a different system. There are different submajors within a department. For example, a Chemistry department might offer 3 majors: Biochemistry, Chemistry, and Chemical Physics, with core classes taught by the same faculty. A Mechanical Engineering department usually teaches both Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering. An Electrical Engineering department might teach both Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering. A Physics department might have 2 degrees, Applied Physics and Physics.

This isn't unknown even at US universities.

However, if Biochemistry, for example, was having bad employment rates, they'd just cut the Biochemistry program. No need to fire anyone, since the Chemistry department is still there.
Biochemistry is a proven discipline whose employment stats are more likely to be tied in with the economic cycles. What we are talking about are majors that have persistent low to poor employment stats independent of economic cycles, something like Philosophy or Liberal Arts, or when we mock someone about his/her education: Underwater Basketweaving. So ultimately, the elimination of a major is a serious event because the decision is usually preceded by years of observation and analysis. Once the major is eliminated, so will those who have been teaching it. Many of these that are deemed to be worthless are developed by those who majored in something else. For US and many of our universities, particularly very socially 'liberal' ones, the dubious majors involved Gay and Lesbian studies, for example.
 
Biochemistry is a proven discipline whose employment stats are more likely to be tied in with the economic cycles. What we are talking about are majors that have persistent low to poor employment stats independent of economic cycles, something like Philosophy or Liberal Arts, or when we mock someone about his/her education: Underwater Basketweaving. So ultimately, the elimination of a major is a serious event because the decision is usually preceded by years of observation and analysis. Once the major is eliminated, so will those who have been teaching it. Many of these that are deemed to be worthless are developed by those who majored in something else. For US and many of our universities, particularly very socially 'liberal' ones, the dubious majors involved Gay and Lesbian studies, for example.

in China, the "worst" degrees are not what they are in the West. Obviously, Philosophy and Liberal arts are not too hot, but Clinical Medicine, Physics, Applied Math, Biotechnology and Law are also on the list of highest unemployment.

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Obviously, you can't say that Physics, Clinical Medicine and Applied Math are more worthless than Philosophy, but what happens is, many schools produce far too many Physics, Applied Math, Medicine, etc. majors, more than the market need. This stems from the command economy days.

I actually pity the Biotech and Clinical Medicine people the most.

The liberal arts people can go into publishing, education, journalism, advertisements, financial services, etc.

The physics and applied math people can go into alot of different types of engineering. I myself learned physics and was in pharmaceuticals. Others who were better at E/M than I was went into telecom or computer hardware. The math guys can do software.

The biology guys just know biology and that's it.
 
We can see who is the real dimwit here. The subject is the college MAJOR, not the educational institutions itself. You do know what a 'major' is at the university level, no?
hey old stubben d1mw1t, if the guraduates from us couldnt find jobs then logically its even worse for those colleges. simple fact that your old antique cold war brainwashed mind cant comprehand that your hosted country is going down. but you will rather indulge in your basement believe whatever china bashing nonsenses coming out western propaganda machine`lol``
 
This is the continuation of the thread about the Chinese college degree's worth. The communist part admits many of college degrees are worthless and plan to kill them off.

China plans to kill off unproductive majors | The News Journal | delawareonline.com


Still debating the value of an Indian college degree(Accepted by Western employers) vs Chinese college degree(Killed off by Chinese government)?
Was Seung-Hui Cho's college major productive? There's another bat crazy Korean out there. Three guesses who it is.
 

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