Top 10 College Majors That Are Actually Worth It

if you ask your parents or your grandparents or your high school counselors what you should do when you become an adult they're almost certainly going to tell you to follow your passion but if you log on to YouTube and you look up what to do you'll probably see a bunch of videos about how college is a scam and instead you should invest in their 1997 course and this is going to take you from broke loser to thirty thousand dollars a month in 28 days not like many things in life the truth is somewhere in between

these two extremes and me like millions of other people have had to learn this the hard way I went all the way through the college meat grinder and actually got a doctorate so I understand the entire system and how it works from an Insider's perspective and although it did turn out relatively well for me you know I got a doctorate I was able to make six figures working in a medical profession I knew many people who actually had terrible experiences doing this in fact I would say more often than not it turns out bad where

people have a lot of regrets about their college experience because the truth is the value of a college degree has been dropping for a long period of time yet the cost has been going up and when your grandparents and your parents went to college they could basically get any degree and it would be a good investment and the reason for that is because a college degree was so rare but recently nearly 70 percent of people have been going to college so a degree really isn't rare anymore it's all simple supply and demand and on top

of that 40 percent of people who go to college actually end up dropping out and out of the remaining people who finish their degree two-thirds of them have regrets and one of the main reasons is because of the college debt that they have to take out one of the second biggest reasons is because of the fact that college is not preparing them for the workforce and for that expensive piece of paper only one in four people end up working in a career that has anything to do with their degree choice and so it's very important

that if you're going to go to college you get a degree that's going to be worth it from a financial perspective especially if you're taking out student loans and you want to get a degree that's actually going to help you achieve your goals in life not a degree where you're going to have to work double shifts at Starbucks and McDonald's in order to pay back your massive student loan debt and by the end of this video you're going to know what degrees have the best return on investment you're going to have a much better idea

of how you can choose the best degree for you and on top of that I'm going to teach you how to gently tap that like button for the evil YouTube algorithm no but all joking aside I am going to help you figure out what degree would be best for you or if you should even get a degree at all and I've literally helped thousands of people find their ideal careers I've done lots of different interviews on this channel it's basically like a cheat code for you to figure out the best opportunities out there because basically

the slogan for this channel is go where the opportunity is and when you do that it's going to give you an unfair advantage on being successful in life and achieving your goals so I highly recommend subscribing so you don't miss out and let's get into it right now alright so first one on the list is going to be science degrees and there's a lot of Science degrees many of them are not that great I'm going to choose chemistry so this is the major that one of my favorite writers of all time Kurt Vonnegut briefly took

he wrote the book Slaughterhouse Five as well as cat's cradle and oftentimes in his books he would actually talk about chemistry and he had a really morbidly dark and absurd sense of humor but always with kind of a positive Silver Lining to it you know there's always like a hopeful underlying message which is something I always try to give off on this channel as well I tell you guys the reality of the situation but I think the best thing is to be a rational Optimist and I know these painful truths can be hard to hear

sometimes but the truth is there's a lot of amazing opportunities out there and the world can be a great place as well anyways back to Science degrees and chemistry degrees specifically so I do get comments on this channel from time to time from people who are basically just like get a stem degree bro and this is from Bobo's who think that they know everything but the truth is it's not that simple out of the stem degrees Science degrees are the worst especially at the bachelor's level this is something that I Do cover in other videos

but chemistry is one of the best ones so chemistry does rank number 54 on my college degree ranker out of over 900 Degrees and if you look at the stats it is pretty good now if you want to become a scientist and really if you want to get a lot of those high-level jobs with science degrees you will have to get a masters and in some cases even a doctor and of course that's going to be a lot of extra schooling but if you do get a master's or a doctorate as long as you have

a good plan going in it can be worth it but if the bachelor's level science degrees are clearly not as good as the other four now in conclusion some of the science degrees can be really good and one of the biggest perks is everybody is saying these days that you need to trust the scientists bro even if they're wrong time after time right so whenever you're wrong you can just say well the data suggested at the time that I was right so in the 2020s getting a science degree is basically a license to say whatever

you want and get away with it fun times we live in anyways just kidding on to the next one number nine on the list is going to be economics so a weirdly large amount of famous people in all different walks of life have gotten economics degrees and I'm not even kidding there's actually articles about this phenomenon on the internet right so this one's called want to be famous study economics so Business Leaders like Warren Buffett Sam Walton of Walmart and Steve Ballmer of Microsoft are a few examples then there's former U.S presidents like Gerald Ford

Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump then you've got sports figures like John Elway Tiger Woods and Bill Belichick and even musicians like Mick Jagger yeah it's ridiculous how many famous people have studied economics and when you think about it it actually kind of does make total sense right economics will give you a great understanding of how the economy works and where the opportunities are now let's say you're a very smart very hard-working person but you go into a business that doesn't have a lot of opportunity like you go into a dying industry you might still end

up being successful but it's probably going to be much harder your chances of success are going to be lower and it's not going to be as profitable right so instead of being able to make a million dollars in like five or ten years it might take you 30 years but if you take that same person put them in an industry that has a lot of opportunity they're going to have a much higher chance of being successful plus they're probably going to be more successful AKA they're going to make more money and they're going to do

it faster plus it's not going to be nearly as stressful and having a strong understanding of economics and how supply and demand Works will lead you to making these decisions where you end up up in situations where whatever you're supplying AKA your skill set has a very strong demand so I'm not going to go over the stats much on this video but economics does come in at number 27 on my college degree ranker and yeah it can be a really good one and it is a social science degree technically so it is one of the

better social science degrees number eight on the list is going to be a Physics degree and this is one that has a lot of the biggest Giga brains of History like Albert Einstein Stephen Hawking and Marie Curry there's also a bunch of astronauts that got physics degrees and on top of that the billionaire playboy himself Elon Musk got a Physics degree as well and this is the degree that has really good statistics overall with that being said you're not going to become a physicist with just a bachelor's degree you're going to need to get at

least a masters if not a doctorate but even with just a bachelor's degrees lots of companies in the finance industry for instance love hiring physics graduates because they know they're getting a big brain individual and a lot of companies have this strategy where they basically just hire the smartest people for the role and if you're able to complete a Physics degree which is really difficult a pretty much know that you're going to be smart so physics comes in at number 18 on my college degree ranker really solid statistics you can argue here correlation versus causation

a lot of the degrees on this list are kind of like that basically really smart people tend to do well whether they get a college degree or not and it's debatable whether the college degree itself contributes to their success but there's really no way to tell that and if you really look into it it's probably a little bit of both so yeah physics is really good here another one that's also really good that's kind of in the same realm is the next one on the list and that is mathematic now there is a lot of

famous people that have studied mathematics as well such as Google co-founder Sergey bran Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings and a bunch of astronauts again now the stats on this one are great but again you could argue correlation versus causation here but one thing is for sure if you are good at a skill that is valuable in society and there's not that many other people that are good at the skill and if you like it it's even better then that is going to be something where you're probably going to be able to make a lot of money

with it and Mathematics is obviously one of those skills so in that particular case it would be a great opportunity for you and that's what I always tell you to do on this channel which is to go where the opportunity is now this one is actually tied with the next one on the list which is statistics now on my college degree ranker mathematics comes in at number 22. and statistics is around there as well now there are some subtle differences here of course like mathematics depending on sort of where you take it and what you

specialize in can be a little bit theoretical right so it's not nearly as practical when it comes to solving problems in the real world as something like statistics but it still can be really good next one on the list number five is going to be business degrees and there's tons of famous people that have also graduated with business degrees like Clint Eastwood Arnold Schwarzenegger and P Diddy now business degrees have the reputation of being relatively easy they have the reputation of being the degree that people who like to party but they still want to have

a decent job after they graduate with college get but the truth is when you look at the statistics especially considering how easy they are compared to a lot of the other ones on this list they're really good so for instance management information systems comes in at number 17 on my college degree ranker and management informations is basically kind of business skills mixed with a little bit of Technology skills as well and that's a great combination and in the modern world learning about technology is probably one of the smartest ways for you to leverage other skills

so for instance if you're an artist and you want to get paid to do art you can use technology to blast your art out to thousands hundreds of thousands or even millions of people and I really do think that in the next 20 years artists that are smart about how they go about monetizing their artistic skills are going to dominate and by the way 99.9 of the time that is not going to involve going to college if you are an artist and you want to make a living from art and I have a ton of

great advice that's coming out for people who are artistic and they want to make a living from art so make sure you subscribe to the channel so you don't miss out on that for instance one of the things that Giga brains around the world are doing right now is they're getting chill still remote jobs that teach them valuable skills and I made an entire video that's the remote job tier list where I rank the best and the worst remote jobs and you can check that out right here speaking of jobs that can be done remotely

the next one on the list is going to be technology related degrees now although technology degrees are the new kid on the Block they still have a good amount of famous people that have studied them so for instance one of them is Liam Neeson that's right don't try to hack his computer because he has a very particular set of skills and he will find you but yeah technology related degrees are really good when you look at the numbers for instance information technology is my number 15 ranked degree on my college degree ranker but the downside

of Technology degrees is there's actually alternative ways to get into technology related careers that are much faster cheaper and easier they're not for everybody the degrees are certainly not a scam by any means they have good numbers but there are simply better ways for many people out there to get into those careers for instance I did an interview with James on my channel who was able to land in an entry-level it job after being a carpenter in Philadelphia and then trying a bunch of different odd jobs like delivery driver Etc so he was able to

land an I.T job in a few weeks using an iPad and I'll put that interview right here if I can remember you can check it out so yeah technology degree is not a scam by any means the numbers are great but there are alternative ways to get into technology related careers another really good one you can do is still getting a degree but going to an accelerated University like Western Governors University and I've covered that on this channel as well so in many cases you can get a degree in a year or less number three

on the list is going to be health related degrees and particularly we are going to be talking about a BSN to become a nurse and BSN stands for Bachelors of Science in nursing but there's a lot of other really good health related degrees out there so of course there's going to be many different famous Titans of their Industries on this list like Pau Gasol Kim Jong myself and also Dr Phil but yeah all joking aside I did get a health degree and they can be really solid options one of the things that's in amazing about

health careers is you actually do have to get the degree in order to get into the career right it's not one of those things that's optional like technology related careers and I also think that health related careers are probably the most stable careers you could possibly get into so even if it was the end of the world for instance there would still be nurses and doctors taking care of people and that's why there's always multiple doctors in every single zombie movie or zombie show so on my college degree Rancor nurse comes in at number 21

and physician assistant comes in at number eight so yeah Health can be really great there's definitely pluses and minuses to getting into health related professions definitely check out the other videos on my Channel about that but number two on the list is going to be engineering degrees so Bill Nye the Science Guy Ashton Kutcher Cindy Crawford Mr Bean and a plethora of different CEOs like Jeff Bezos also studied engineering and Engineers are basically the Masters of the Universe the s-tier human beings of existence and the rest of us should honestly just be glad that engineers

allow us to occupy the same space as them but why is it that they're only number two on the list well let's talk about the good and the bad of engineering first of all in order to become an engineer you do have to have an engineering degree so there is a natural barrier to entry there kind of like healthcare degrees second engineering degrees are very difficult now this can be a bad thing but if you are able to get it done employers kind of know what they're getting when they hire Engineers they're getting someone who's

very smart and very hard working and they're very likely to hire you even if it has nothing to do with engineering and the third thing this is probably the most important one is engineering teaches you practical problem solving skills right so sometimes degrees like mathematics for instance will teach you problem solving skills but they're not nearly as practical or as applicable to the real world as engineering degrees are and that's why you see that over the last 40 years Engineers actually on average earn more money than any other type of degree now that doesn't necessarily

mean it's going to be the same thing over the next 40 years now engineering degree is absolutely dominate my my college degree ranker list I believe seven out of the top 10 degrees are engineering degrees so why is it that I did not put engineering degrees at number one well because there's one degree that stands above all of the other ones yes this is the god tier degree and that is going to be computer science this one ranks number one out of over 900 different degrees on my college degree Rancor and it absolutely does have

the best stats and if you get this degree you're typically going to become a software developer and if you become a software developer you are pretty much set for life for instance if you look at people who are involved in the fire movement which is the financial Independence retire early movement this is kind of a movement you can check it out on Reddit if you want and this is basically a bunch of people who are trying to retire in their 30s and 40s and typically they have jobs right they haven't even started a business many

of those people I'd say probably the majority of them work in technology and specifically software development and not only can you make incredibly good salaries when it comes to working in Tech in software development but on top of that you have great benefits you have great work-life balance a lot of people will get really good bonuses as well as stock options and there's this new thing emerging called being over employed where a lot of people are actually getting multiple jobs and the reason they're getting multiple jobs is because of the fact they probably only have

to work like one or two hours a day in many cases if they have all that free time might as well get multiple jobs right and if all of that wasn't enough especially for the top two on this list engineering and software development I think they are amazing if you want to start a business down the line so yeah computer science number one on my college degree ranker list of course I'll have it pop up on the screen it is getting a little bit harder to get into software development it used to be extremely easy

you basically just need to network and know the bare minimum coding skills and you'd be able to get a job now you really do have to know your stuff getting a computer science degree is one way to get there and this is one that you can get into without getting a computer science degree but it is going to be a lot harder than a lot of the other Tech related careers that I've mentioned on this channel like it for instance it help desk is very easy to get into so is Tech sales now you shouldn't

just go for computer science because it's the best degree you should go for a degree that complements your skill set and that's exactly what I teach you how to do in this video where I go over the Ultimate Guide to choosing your college degree which you can check out right here I definitely recommend you go to that video