10 USELESS DEGREES IN GERMANY
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2020
- Studying in Germany doesn't guarantee that one will have a job after the graduation. If you study one of these useless degrees in Germany the chance of unemployment is quite high. Therefore, future students need to pick their major very carefully if they want to have a prosperous future in Germany.
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TL: DW
1. Humanities (esp. history)
2. Religion
3. Linguistics and German Studies (Also English studies/American studies)
4. Literature
5. Politics/Political Studies
6. Archeology
7. Social work/Social science
8. Sociology
9. Fine arts
Basically all humanities degrees. The absolute disrespect that this video has for the humanities majors is sad. A question she asks towards the end is "why go to college to study fine arts, why not do an online course" ... unfortunately this is the product of toxic capitalism where there's no space for the arts anymore.
To anyone reading this, you do what you want to do. Follow your passions. I know unemployed engineers & also writers with literature majors who are doing great for themselves.
Rename this video: 10 majors that won’t make you a billionaire. “Useless” is completely wrong. It’s not all about $$$.
I disagree. She is too diplomatic. We should name people who provide these degrees gangsters. And we should call these universities criminal organisations. This lady raised extremely important issue
@@brianryan4053 So education and critical thinking is criminal to you?
no major in the world will make you a billionaire btw
@@brianryan4053thank you
It's Saad how Germany produces a lot of big names in philosophy and nowadays there is people from Germany that didn't even know what is it and why it is so important in society... Rip heigel / nietzsche / kant /...
I remember a video a decade ago about a young woman in the US that racked up in excess of $250K in student loan debt for her doctorate degree in German Literature, and after all that, she couldn't even land jobs in second-hand bookstores in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, or Köln!
Pretty ironic undertone in that video, hilarious 🤭.
Really nice, i can see how comfortable you are now in front of the camera.
What else? 🤭😂😂😂?
Thank you!
Good video, Анна.You brought out defensive people. This means you told the truth and hit some nerves.
It's extremely good video.
I think, it depends on what goals you have in life. If you are aiming to earn lots of money and live a materialistic lifestyle, you definitely shouldn't consider the humanities. But if you instead want to question the problematics in modern society or dig into you're passion on a academic level, a degree in philosophy or history may be the right thing. There will always be a job for those in the humanities, even if it isn't very well pain.
Therefore I think it's wrong to call these subjects useless. It really depends on what you want to get out of you're professional life.
Agree. But based on her background which she includes in the description, it might seem like her past have shaped her rationality about the importance of money. So I think she made this video with good intentions, not to look down on those majors
Exactly, not everyone aim for money but you need money so I think everything depends on every individual person.
This video is representing The crisis of meaning that the world is experiencing..nowadays.. It is sad to hear such words from a young German woman who belongs to the homeland of the greatest philosophers, historians and writers. 💔 People have become so mesirable that they cannot know if something is useful or not only in terms of the money it brings
This is hilarious, best entertainment about "brotlose Kunst" ever!
Very good video
Very good advice indeed for any country. Unless one has enough financial resources to last a life time without a serious income follow what she says. Expanding one’s outlook, knowledge of the world etc. can be done on your own time, if you want a family, a home and a retirement that isn’t in poverty focus on areas that lead to productive areas of the economy. The humanities have always been meant for the wealthy not the poor and middle class, they just don’t want to tell you that.
Right. If your father is a president you would get job of politician after graduation of political studies department
I love half of those fields, would have never started studying any of them at university.
I really thought that Social Work degree is a high demand career in Germany?? Do social work graduates struggle in Germany for jobs?
i like the akcent and the style she express the truth 😄😄
You might be a bit too money obsessed.
Philosophy might not offer many jobs openings these days but we need those people, and we should have some philosophy classes as a part of requirements for graduation. There are a lot of clueless people that could use some philosophy or social science classes. You need people with PhDs to teach those classes and do research in those areas.
An example, my brother studied Political Science and now works for Morning Star as a Data Analyst. They prefer to hire Social Science degree people and teach them financial stuff themselves.
As far as literature, I don't know. These days anyone , even an idiot can publish a book. Do we really want more people like that? Wouldn't you prefer to read a book from someone that has a passion for it or education for it. I've just checked up on some Russian writers. Dostoevsky left his engineering career to be a writer.
I would have to disagree with you on most of these.
Yes, you might be right if your primary, or the only, goal is to just make as much as money as you can. And even then that money is not a guarantied. Also, not everyone cares for, or can do, some of the high paying jobs. Not everyone can be a doctor or an engineer. Some people can only succeed in these studies you consider useless.
As I said, you might be a bit too money obsessed.
And art also takes training.
Another US example, decades ago everyone here kept saying the US will need more nurses, more engineers, more people in IT fields, more accountants. But eventually these fields were over-flooded with people in these fields, and many IT and engineering jobs were outsourced to Asia. Now some of these people are working low paying jobs and jobs unrelated to their fields. Many of them had to settle for lower paying jobs.
I have meet very young and very old engineers working as baristas. The young engineers were too inexperienced, so nobody wants to hire them. Which is sad and funny. How are they to get experience if no one wants to give them jobs. The old engineers were too experienced and asked for too much money. Why pay someone $100,000, or more, a year for a great work, when you can pay someone in Asia $30 to $50 an hour for a good-enough-to-sell product.
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This speech is so stupid, one should study something for his personal growth, for his personal ability of critical thinking and with the purpose of getting an education which is in line with his inner spirit, not in order to get informations and money afterwards.
Curious to hear if you say the same thing in ten years
I would have the same opinion as you if only money didn't matter.
You missed the point, her video was about being financially stable not about the best way to life.
I#m a bit concerned about the strictness of your recommendations. When I reflect my experiences over my lifetime,my history studies have helped me quitea lot in my international work. I have been working in international organizations like ISO, on behalf of the fedeal government in the Russian Federation, and one of the reasons I could do it, has been my knowledge of the history and the cultura lbackgrounds of my partners I have learned, that the degrees you've got are of little interest in business. Important is your ability to learn .... And history is a great training for learning from different perspectives.
For the average history major, this would be catastrophic advice. Perhaps you know someone's cousin that did great with a history degree but data suggest otherwise. In the US, where I am currently at, history major = coffee shop worker with a lot of student loan debt.
@@mgtowski395 This has been my very personal experience. I don't need a cousin.:-)
@@herbertmullerphilippssohn5947 I am happy for you. Would be great if all history majors had the same outcome in this world.
Mam, what do you say about social science fields?
I saw your video could you plz tell me if someone has a major in philosophy and want to go to Germany which course one to apply for study in Germany for example if someone do technical course is it helpful to come to germany
You are so reasonable, so German in a way. All you breadless knollegde is just what is attractive to me. One of your " don't study " is psychologie. That one does have the highest NC (nummerus clausus) in Germany at all. You have a good examination and a confident demeanour you have a well paid job, mostly in the human resources departments. But all else, it is as you say, more so as you address non German students.
Thank you. It's a pity when you study such as complicated subject as psychology and end up in HR.
@@simplenewzealandwithanna It is anyway mostly statistics - mathmatics. But what is HR?
@@simplenewzealandwithanna heyy plzz reply humanities have scopes for bachlors in germany or management? or digital marketing 😪😪😪😪 i want to reappear for bachlors in germany?
Pls is it true that Social Work graduates struggle to get a good job in Germany?
@Jean juju I would like to study Masters in Social Work in Germany. Pls are there universities in Germany that train or teach Social Work graduates in English language?
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you mean the ''UX design'' or ''Product design'' in Arts section?
😮 OMG
Many times, before the submission of project/degree thesis, aspirants have to take their lawyers with them. That is required in Germany. Can anyone imaging what a severe situation it is? If you are a foreigner in Germany, you end up in finding different pateerns of thesis and you want to know the university rules. For that you need lawyers. However if anything still goes wrong, University is responsible.
Would highly appreciate it if you could add english subtitles. I got a headache trying to follow your accent and really decipher what you're saying.
What about journalism and mass communication / mass media / digital media?
Economy and Education are two separate worlds. They are not connected to each other. I am a programmer. Good programmer would never teach programming, because you can make better money outside teaching. But teacher of history cannot have job outside teaching. So education exists in order to provide jobs for potentially unemployed people. And you need to know this before doing any degree. However it's not German problem. This problem exists everywhere.
Thanks for this video! I wanted to know if pursuing Psychology in Germany good? Would love to know your comments.
Hey I have the same question, have you figured out something?
Hey I have the same question
i have the same question too😭😭 could you let me know if you got something ??? thank you
Same question bruv
If anyone got ans plz let me know
So nice video...such an informative one ...i wonder about psychology....the clinical psychology and councelling psychology
I am thinking about the same. Kindly tell me if u have any information regarding its scope in germany
@@vanshikamaggo8022me too
First of all, I would like to thank you for your efforts in this video - it was useful to know these things and see the point of view of a person with a lot of experience.
However, I must strongly disagree with the point of view of studying art. I have a degree in art and I can say that it was very, very useful for me and it was also a great experience. Education in this field is important not only because it sets your mind to a certain frequency, but also because you meet people in this field, you have the opportunity to complete great projects under the guidance of experienced and experienced teachers, you exchange so much with people who are also artists. All of these things are very important for finding a job later.
Also, since I worked as a graphic designer and was on the other side - that of the employer, I must say that every time we had to hire someone to join our team, it was always very recognizable not only which candidate has studied art and design, but even which university he or she graduated from because of the level of education itself.
There are many people who can do well without completing such an education, and perhaps it is even better for them not to enter the academic system, but there are many for whom this is a great experience and also very useful.
And last but not least - yes, you can do your art and be as creative as you want, no matter what other job you have, but the level of satisfaction and growth that comes with creativity when you do it every day is more likely to be higher. When you work in another field, you can lose a lot of energy for something that has no value to you and may not be as satisfying as doing art. If you are an artist, this is usually not a job, it is a vocation and you want to put all your efforts into it.
I'm sure it's a very personal matter, I'm just concluding it with my own feeling about it, and also with all the people I know who are also artists. Those I know are artists, but they have other jobs, they are often unhappy and dissatisfied.
In Germany I see daily job offers for graphic designers for example (although this is different than art itself, but it usually comes with a similar degree) and all of them require education in the field. So I definitely wouldn't call it exactly useless:)
Yes I completely agree. I think it was very stereotypical of her to dismiss fine arts as useful subject. Fine arts is not just one thing, lots of different forms of arts and design is included in it. You also can't make design if you have no knowledge on art. And doing a course on Google is not the solution for anything. If it was this easy people could take course on engineering and become a professional. You can't just be creative. Art is not all talent, many years of practice, dedication and techniques need to put together. It's impossible if you're studying some other subject, doing some other job and trying to continue art at the same time. It will called a hobby then.
There is any scop of fasion techonology in germany?
U made me such a disappointed ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️ i felt so sad for doing Bachelor in literature and was planning to do masters in Germany
I'm looking for universities that offer Masters in Design in Germany, preferably Design thinking or interaction design, any suggestions for the same?
No, not really:(
there are a tonn you should just search them
I read Political Science (BSc) and I want to study Masters in Social Work. I have passion for social work volunteering, teaching and care assistance to the aged and youths. Pls is Social Work a valuable course or high in demand within Germany? Is it advantageous to have both BSc Political Science degree and Social Work degrees (Masters) ?
Yes it is very much in demand cos there are lots of nursing homes
@@ptadailystab7983 are there English taught universities for social work?
@@CEOpaschal social workers are highly regulated in Germany. In order to be recognised as a social worker you'll have to do a full bachelor's degree in social work. A master's degree in social work won't be sufficient
in the past year i was going for historian. I switched to ingienria in sistemas. Good video :P
Very good decision 😅
What about architecture ? 😊
Is graphics Designing a good field in germany
@Russianvagabond how about english literature is there any chance ?
Same question
Is doing event management in Germany good or its worthless??
sorry, but for my opinion quite worthless
I want to complete bachelor of arts in English literature in Germany, how much demand and Jobs have in Germany after completing this degree
Same here
none
IU or GISMA which is best
Any statistics or other factual reliable resources to back up these claims? Any whatsoever?
Do you think studying geography worth it in Germany?
Same question bro
Sorry, but what you're saying is plain wrong. The unemployement rate among humanities graduates is 2.8% in Germany.
Employers prefer humanity graduates over engineers and scientist for jobs requiring communicative and cooperative skills.
It is true that the entry is harder and often in a completely different direction than your subject, but due to the unique skill to seek knowledge broard and look for the bigger picture, rather than specializing on detailed subjects like scientists, humanities graduates find their way often into management positions.
If you study a language for example you might be employed in coordinating relations with foreign customers and companies. A friend of mine studied Japanese literature and now works at Mitsubishi in Düsseldorf.
Politicians and parties employ politics graduates to analyse the situation, also comapnies that work with the governmental sector of difficult states. How do investors asses political risks?
Hi, how about criminology ?
It's a psychology master's degree
Hello, better study law or psychology? Thanks
it's up to you! :) I would not recommend to study law in Germany unless it's your native language.
They should’ve cast you as Anna Delvey.
archaeology is a dangerous occupation in Germany!
Yes, not eating will lead to death.
is doing journalism in germany a good idea?
Not sure 😅
What about photography BA in Berlin??
Don’t try it
@@anm3037 psychology?
Can someone just summarize the majors she mentioned?
History philosophy littérature linguistic and languages politics archeology, social science , sociology arts
I m not sure but that s what i understood and remembered
it my first year in university
I did economics
I want to come to Germany in the future and do my master there
Can you tell me what the best master to do????
Nothing, other than waste time and money on years to decrease the life you would of had.
It sad to see this video! Human studies should be rewarded not get shit on! No reason why society is going the direction it goes! All this technology is good but people need meaning in their lives !
I'm from Germany and in my opinion your arguments against theology are mainly wrong. If you want to be a priest, the churches will support and hire you immediately. Furthermore so many students learn Latin in school. Some even do ancient greek. The intensity of learning Greek and Hebew varries from church to church.
Every degree is exactly as useful as every other degree.
A degree is merely verification of being a knowledgeable person.
Some job titles say "a degree is less valuable than work experience"
Others say a degree is everything.
It doesn't matter. Because you need the knowledge regardless of whether you hold the degree or not.
Music degrees are considered useless. Musicians don't go to school for a degree. They go to school to be disciplined in their chosen skill.
And most importantly of all, don't make your decision based on how much money you'll make.
First, drop out rates are high because people with this mentality bite off more than they can chew and usually end up picking a competitive career anyways.
But if that's what you actually want to do, regardless of how much it pays, you should do it.
If your dream job is delivering food on a bicycle merely because you love cycling that much, by all means, go do it.
You could study fitness training and sports nutrition purely just to further your efficiency at cycling.
Everybody is so obsessed with the end result and the job they're hoping for that they forget the entire point of going to college in the first place
(To LEARN what they're interested in)
I think you could consider privilege as the premise for that argument with pursuing only what you love, utility is important regardless and so, yes theres some professions more useful to society than the other.
where's your research or statistics?
She doesn't have any. Clearly, she doesn't have a clue about what she's talking about.
@@vanessat9309 Iqbal went for a walk in Germany.
Catholic pastor you have a guaranteed job almost. Evangelic of course problematic. But catholic it is a huge demand. But because of the celibate nobody wants.
O.k I study in Germany.
🙂🙂
Are you on any social media ?
Instagram is in my CZcams profile.
History
Can you put english captions
Just because someone is studying archeology in Germany doesn't mean that they have to work in Germany. Archeologists work all over the world.
Theology students need to know the languages you mentioned in order to understand the original texts of the Bible, etc. Perhaps this knowledge is also useful when there are new finds of ancient writings.
Why do you have to be an artist when studying art?
Some people study a particular subject out of passion, not to make money.
I nevertheless agree with you on many points. There are not many good jobs in these areas.
Thank you for your opinion, I agree with you.
Actually archeologists have good chances to get a job at bigger construction companies as they have to examine if they find artefacts while building
Archaeologist here, due to the building boom we have a skill shortage and you get hired from the spot (when you're not a sissy who's afraid of hard work that is).
@@sualtam9509 This is a rhetorical question: What happens during a building doom?
@@mgtowski395 You mean during a building bust?
Then the economy is fucked.
I won't see that just the sheer amount of pipelines being build for hydrogen is enough for a generation.