re: 13 most useless majors

"The moral of this story is basically to get an engineering degree.

Nearly everything else can be self-taught."

35 years ago it was not common, but there were people with as little as a HS diplomia that basically apprenticed for a engineering firm then took and passed the PE exam. The ones I knew were civil and mechanical, had one for an instructor in college, was the only time he had ever been inside a college classroom. At some point just like the CPA and bar exam, they changed the rules where you must have the associated formal degree to take the PE test.