Originally Posted by
gloopy
Its not that you'll be able to instantly walk into a top tier job with a degree you haven't used if the market goes south or you can't get a medical or any number of things. Its that since an "aviation degree" especially a BA/BS is functionally irrelevant in the real world, while being even less transferrable than other equally worthless degrees, why bother? And most places that offer them in the first place tend to be extremely high cost (although there are exceptions like UVSU etc).
I'd say a backup in engineering is the best followed by CPA, nursing, a solid pre-med/pre-pharma/pre-law/CJ related degree or even just business. Not because a BBA is a golden ticket by any means, but because everything you go into is a business, and you may want to start your own with some of that 6 figure money you saved by not jumping head first into the shallow pool of "follow your [BS 'studies'] dreams and go to a party school no matter how much it costs" like millions keep doing to disastrous/national crisis levels all the time.
Eh, a degree is a degree, the letters and words attached to it don’t count for much in most fields. Outside of medicine and engineering you will do most of your training on the job while “paying your dues.”
Do a degree that interests you, you’ll perform better and you might just enjoy the class side of adult training that is labeled “college.”