I thought this article from 538 was interesting and is pertinent to discussions we've had here about what people major in and why they choose to do so:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/students-at-most-col... /

Key quote for me:

"But while focusing on more practical majors — such as business — may seem like the best route in the short term, majoring in the humanities may be more beneficial in the long term. In the first years after graduation, social sciences and humanities majors earn less than people who have pre-professional degrees, but at peak earning ages, liberal arts majors surpass people in pre-professional degrees, in part because they are more likely to have graduate degrees."

The article talks about certain Liberal Arts majors out earning people with pre-professional degrees in peak earning years.
But it uses people with graduate degrees like an MBA or becoming a lawyer as the basis of that conclusion.

It would be interesting to see how people with just an undergraduate degree or even graduate degree in the humanities fare against someone with a pre-professional degree.

I also found it interesting that the prestige of the university affects how an undergraduate degree in humanities is perceived.

"But while focusing on more practical majors — such as business — may seem like the best route in the short term, majoring in the humanities may be more beneficial in the long term. In the first years after graduation, social sciences and humanities majors earn less than people who have pre-professional degrees, but at peak earning ages, liberal arts majors surpass people in pre-professional degrees, in part because they are more likely to have graduate degrees." [/QUOTE]
Reading this quote, the author seems to be looking at the maximum-average earnings on a year-to-year basis. For a meaningful analysis on this subject, I'd like to see the author look at lifetime earnings. Year 1+Year 2+Year 3+Year 4... And when you factor in the additional expense incurred to attend graduate school and then factor in 4 years of lost salary?

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My undergraduate degree was in Finance. If I went back and got a MBA today, I'd make more money on completion. The salary increase would not justify the lost earnings. If my employer offered to pay for it (executive MBA in addition to work) I'd be more likely to consider it but I'd gain more value from a masters in science for something like Computer Programming, Statistics or Data Analytics.

[QUOTE]Brad Hershbein, an economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, said students who major in business are less likely to want to go to graduate school “not so much because they can’t get in [but] because they are more likely to end up in a job where it is not necessary, which is probably a lot of reasons why people study it in the first place.”

The article also makes it clear that the more prestigious the school where you got your humanities degree,the more respected it is when you try to use it.
That should include getting into an MBA program or law school.

Sorry,but your comment about nurses is,at best,disrespectful.

It sounds like you're not familiar with the requirement's to become a nurse.
You may want to check out the admission/curriculum requirements for O.U.'s School of Nursing.

I think you'll also find that most nurses don't go into it for the money.

I'm married to a nurse and have a niece who just got her BSN.
By the way,neither one was from an "impoverished background".

You couldn't pay me enough to deal with the "crap" (literally and figuratively) they have to deal with every day.

I won't go into details,but my dad got taken to the E.R. this year.If it wasn't for the nursing staff in the E.R.he wouldn't have made it.