re: 13 most useless majors

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Well when you work in engineering and accounting as an entry level shtick that's what you do. Its not a weakness, they're preparing you for the job. The job itself prepares you to make management decisions

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Many could learn in less than a year what LSU takes 4 years to teach an accounting undergrad. Dealing with ambiguity comes with experience. Art and design school grads have a 4 year jump on that development.

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a sterilized class environment

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That is where many of the art, architecture and design programs deviate from what you experienced as a b-school undergrad.

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I don't work in an accounting role anymore as its more finance-based, but I promise you that everything we do is fraught with subjectivity.

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In my limited experience with finance, even financial risk is dealt with in an equation.

The problem for most arts majors is their narrow view of their skill set leaving undergrad. For example, architecture majors think they are building designers. More broadly, they are hard workers, creative, have great attention to detail and can solve qualitative and quantitative problems. Any employer would covet that set of skills and teach you the technical nuances of their business.

ETA: I don't say any of that to disregard business and engineering majors, but rather to defend the value of art and design majors (if applied appropriately).