{"id":14349,"date":"2023-09-11T22:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T22:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=14349"},"modified":"2023-09-11T22:01:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T22:01:12","slug":"journalism-is-the-most-regretted-college-major","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2023\/09\/11\/journalism-is-the-most-regretted-college-major\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalism is the &#8220;Most Regretted&#8221; College Major"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An astounding 87% of journalism graduates wish they had chosen a different major.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-09-11-145626.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14350\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-09-11-145626.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-09-11-145626.jpg 512w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2023-09-11-145626-284x270.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ziprecruiter.com\/blog\/regret-free-college-majors\/\">The Most Regretted and Most Loved College Majors &#8211; ZipRecruiter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>77% of journalists have an undergrad degree in the arts and humanities &#8211; typically journalism, English Language and Literature, Political Science and Government and Communications.<\/p>\n<p>A majority of all such graduates wishes they had studied something else. The average pay is about $50k\/year, which is not much, particularly since many attended private colleges and\/or pursued graduate degrees in journalism.<\/p>\n<p>Why did they pursue these majors?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>87% of journalism graduates say they wish they had pursued a different plan of study in college. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[353,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}