Sunday, December 4, 2011

U.S. Students Take Note: China Axes College Majors That Don't Pay

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The battle over "useless" majors is nothing new. For years, American college students have been told that a degree in English, philosophy or fine arts is a one-way ticket to a career in the fast-food business. But when China faced the same problem, it didn't settle for trying to scare students away from them, or deploying an army of guidance counselors to give the hard sell to nursing and pharmacology. Instead, China's educational officials applied an old-fashioned capitalist solution to the...

U.S. Students Take Note: China Axes College Majors That Don't Pay originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2011-12-02T15:10:00Z.

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