"There's no point": AI forces college students to rethink their major
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Students, and their parents, are searching for future-proof college majors for an AI -powered world.
Key facts
- Nearly seven in 10 (69%) college students worry AI will make it harder to find a job, per a recent survey of 2,000 U.S. higher education students by Superhuman (formerly Grammarly)
- Sammy White, a rising junior at New York University, is a dramatic writing major who's constantly thinking about how AI's impact on the arts, even if he avoids using AI for creative tasks
- Students, and their parents, are searching for future-proof college majors for an AI-powered world
- AI is changing the skills employers expect from entry-level workers, while colleges are rethinking how to prepare students for the transition
Summary
AI is changing the skills employers expect from entry-level workers, while colleges are rethinking how to prepare students for the transition. Rumors of the death of jobs might be greatly exaggerated, but college students and graduates are still worried about what comes next. College instructors and administrators need to spend more time thinking about what students are going to do with their degrees and how what they've learned applies to their career, Casey Evans, interim dean at American University's Kogod School of Business. Parents expect it too. "How are you connected to employers?