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Yay, more 'STEM' grads! You're using your maths degree to do ... what?

Herbert Fruchtl
WTF?

Education

"... could at least employ the STEM grads that won't actually find employment in their core disciplines." And who has suddenly identified this as a problem? Both in the sciences and the arts, there are fields that are only (or mainly) done at university, and if you don't want to have an academic career, you will try to apply what you learnt in a different field. If you have done astronomy (or arts history, for that matter), you knew from the start that there are 100 students to one academic position. You hopefully picked up logic and problem solving skills, in addition to presenting your results and (in STEM) a bit of maths and possibly programming. Somebody will hire you and retrain you for the job they want to fill.

That they will pay you 10% of an economics graduate or 1% of an MBA is a different problem...

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