I am majoring in Information Technology and Minoring in Political Science. Does the political science minor give me an extra "oomph" to my major? Credentially wise. What other job opportunities does my minor degree open up?
I majored in Political Science and it does absolutely nothing to help with your degree in information technology. I dual majored with history being my other and those two go together very well but poly sci and IT are completely different. If you take political science and focus on either administration to help you get into some sort of IT management or focus on research such as data analysis it may help but you don't really need an IT degree to run those number cruncher programs. If I were you I would take math as a minor.
A degree in political science is essentially useless. Get that minor in a natural science, and you'll have something.
You obviously are not familiar with political science then. It is one of the most useful degrees you can get.
Never tried to work at Mcdonalds but it does come in handy for jobs at the CIA like an analyst. It was one of their "requirements". I could list hundreds more but obviously most of the people such as yourself obviously do not get it so why put in the effort. You can check it out for yourself...try looking under the part that says CAREERS. https://www.cia.gov/index.html
That's because political science gives you a very board education, involving fields such as Finance, Lobbying, Law and Education... However, you're going to get very far in those fields with just a political science degree. Needless to say, if you want to be a financial planner, just get a finance degree, not a political science degree.
It mainly focuses on politics, law, administration, and research as well as education. Any of those fields are ideally suited for a political science major so yes it is broad but extremely valuable in any number of fields. For instance, with my masters right now I could go become a teacher at a community college or move into administration with the school or get a job helping them with funding or as a contact between the school and any government body. It is a wide range of options. I just had an interview for a job as a liaison between our State government and the military so the amount of jobs out there are very plentiful.
Must be liberals then. Overview The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that around 5,570 people were employed in 2013 throughout the United States as political scientists, with more than half of those working for the federal government (www.bls.gov). According to the BLS, the median salary for political scientists was $100,920 a year in 2013. Job growth in this field was estimated to be slower than average between 2012 and 2022. http://education-portal.com/articles/Average_Salary_of_a_Political_Science_Major.html
Considering there were 40,000 people that graduated with bachelors degrees in political science in 2010 alone, that's not very employable in field of study, IMHO. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014...or-four-decades-of-college-degrees-in-1-graph
Get out of here with those FACTS. "Job growth in this field was estimated to be slower than average between 2012 and 2022." This is why you don't touch it................get something useful now........hell, you don't even need a minor with an IT degree..........but if you insist.......lean towards something managerial in nature....... Strive to be a chief, not an indian................
I worked in the technical fields for well over 30 years. One of the policies we had and I enforced was absolutely no politics on the job. It is a divisive distraction and I. Relieve most old school management would agree. When presented with a stack of resumes that I didn't particularly have the time to go through with all of the other panics of the day, I would take one look at that combination ad use it as an excuse to pitch it and go to the next one In business. Politics is like motor oil, it doesn't mix well with other things and usually leaves behind a mess
That is only people employed under the term "political scientist", as the article states, people with this degree can filter into any number of other jobs also. It is doubtful that most of them are not working. lol, but nice try at trying to make that degree sound horrible. I am happy to prove you wrong.
Note I said "not very employable in field of study." Starbucks baristas are employed, but not in field of study....
Another element is the school. A degree in Poly Sci from an Ivy may get you that government job. From Northern New Mexico, not so much. Similarly, a law degree's value is dependent on what institution granted it. And where you ranked in your class.
Get a minor in something that will supplement your Major. IT and Business would be far better that IT and PoliSci
