That's what I was thinking, it's one of the nation's top schools, and you get paid for at least a PhD education. Still a tough job market.
I also wonder about the Rhode Island School of Design degree, I really don't know much of anything about that whole area of design and fine arts, but I been told they're one of the top schools in their areas of specialization, and a moment with Wikipedia indicates they're #1. Plus it sounds like they're intertwined with Brown.
So if you're going to get such a major, it sounds like the place to do so. And 25K in debt isn't completely insane.
Honestly, $10K for Asian Humanities at UCLA doesn't sound so bad, either. Maybe that major isn't a natural moneymaker, but UCLA is another very good school, and I bet plenty of companies wanting to do business in Asia would be happy to hire a bright student with that background.
I think it would depend on the quality of the studies. If focused on the gender, class and race food group of a large subset of the humanities, I can see corporate employers avoiding such potential trouble makers like the plague, but there are always non-profits and NGOs, even Foreign Service, although per Wikipedia the odds for the generalist path are very low.
If it actually made them useful, e.g. included some time "in country", and ideally minimal language and cultural fluency in at least one country of note, sure thing. Especially at such a price.
I have a friend who did both physics and Japanese and for a long time did well using both.
I also wonder about the Rhode Island School of Design degree, I really don't know much of anything about that whole area of design and fine arts, but I been told they're one of the top schools in their areas of specialization, and a moment with Wikipedia indicates they're #1. Plus it sounds like they're intertwined with Brown.
So if you're going to get such a major, it sounds like the place to do so. And 25K in debt isn't completely insane.