[BlindMath] [nfbcs] Science division reach its 2017 STEM scholarship goal

[John G Heim]

A site called payscale.com dominates google's pages on which college 
degrees pay the most. No matter what I google, I get hits from their web 
site first. I never heard of it until now. Having said that though, 
their list of highest paying college degrees and highest paying careers 
is very heavily weighted toward STEM fields. Business/management also 
does well. [See links below.] The question of aptitude is a very 
important on, of course. I think I'm going to post separately about that 
though.

http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/majors-that-pay-you-back/bachelors
http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/majors-that-pay-you-back/graduate-degrees


On 05/10/2017 08:59 AM, Mike Gorse via BlindMath wrote:
> I'm glad that the scholarship was funded. If blind students are
> interested in a STEM field and have the aptitude, then they should be
> able to study it and shouldn't be discouraged. At the same time, if a
> student has no interest in anything STEM-related but feels passionate
> about, say, helping disadvantaged children, then education or social
> work might be what s/he should study. While the prevalence of jobs and
> expected salaries are things that students should consider, their
> abilities and interests are also factors--if a student studies a field
> that s/he isn't well suited to, the s/he may have trouble finding work
> anyhow.
>
> A friend (who isn't blind) just posted this, while complaining that he
> was encouraged to study biomedical engineering when there are virtually
> no jobs in the field, according to him:
>
> https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/stem-still-no-shortage-c6f6eed505c1
>
> Someone else posted a link to this paper in response, which argues that
> STEM is to heterogeneous to say that there is or isn't a shortage.
>
> https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2015/article/stem-crisis-or-stem-surplus-yes-and-yes.htm
>
>
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