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

[Cricket X. Bidleman]

Can you provide a variety of sources? .com and .org sites generally
tend to have some sort of bias, as I'm sure all sites do to some
extent. Can you provide some .edu and .gov links to balance that out?
I'm typing on a Braille keyboard, so I don't know if that will
translate correctly. We shall see.

On 5/10/17, John G Heim via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 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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