As a person that switched from Art Degree to Engineering work I understand the first freshman comment. But also Art Degree gets you into Video production, professional photography, movie set design, all poster/ promo / cover artwork for music or movie production. And so on. A person I know with their Art Degree works on frame rate and buffering technologies related to video streaming. Basically getting correct colour and quality through advanced codecs or something.

I have trained 16 PhD students in Biochemistry. They were all employed within months of defending, some before they finished.

Biochem major.

Joined the Navy.

Also graduated me: “well at least I can get a white collar job somewhere instead of being forced to work in the service industry like someone with an art degree”