I always find the whole only degrees that are worth it are STEM bullshit crowd funny because it assumes two VERY incorrect things 1 STEM subjects are inherently harder to learn on your own actually kinda the opposite in reality , and 2 You need a degree a lot more to work in STEM than in the Arts or Humanities . Maybe there is a more diverse range of exceptions for the arts , but you really do need a degree to work in a lot of fields and will have equally low chances of getting let in to a job without a degree as , perhaps , an engineer . The reason people are downvoting you so much , though , is because of the first one . This kind of attitude implies you think STEM is inherently harder , which is only really true for those not talented at it same thing for people not good at artmusicetc . Which is why whenever people say something dumb like the only degree worth a shit is engmedlaw , I usually just assume you are really bad at engmedlaw and have a warped perspective of the practice , assuming superiority of the subject when really its just personal inferiority .