In Defense of Journalism Majors

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By: Annie Werner | nyulocal.com

So, the Daily Beast made a slideshow yesterday counting off the Top 20 Most Useless College Majors. At first I thought they meant to be cute (they did "ironically" choose Journalism as the top hit), but then they got all serious with numbers and math like it really means something. For a major to be deemed "useless," the Daily Beast looked at the following criteria:

• Starting and mid-career salary levels, using the profession most associated with the degree.
• The expected change in the total number of jobs from 2008-2018.
• The expected percentage change in available jobs from 2008-2018.

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