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Old 28-11-2014, 12:37 AM
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You see, the problem is EVERYONE knows that. It doesnt take a monkey to know that psych is one of the more useful arts/humanities majors behind econs. But BECAUSE everyone knows that, everyone heads for psych degrees. Why? Simple. In terms of degrees, you could say that there are three tiers of difficulties. At the top would be engin and sciences. 2nd would be biz/acct. 3rd would be the arts/humans/social sciences. Im ignoring medicine/law for now. Anyone would want to do something easy BUT also profitable. Hence they choose the most 'useful' social science degree, thus the large numbers of students taking psychology. Look at the numbers that NTU takes in for psych, its more than English or sociology or History. Same goes to NUS FASS. Most FASS students want to major in econs or psych. Lastly, look at the private institutes. They DONT even offer things like philosophy or literature or Histoy or Linguistics because students want to do psych instead. Yes, there are MORE jobs for psych grads then there are for literature or philosophy grads. Definitely. However, the proportion of psych grads graduating severely outnumbers the number of positions that are available here. Heck, even Chinese Literature has a higher employment rate than psychology :

://.moe.gov.sg/education/post-secondary/files/ges-ntu.pdf

Its smart of FASS not to publish the employment rates of their different majors though.
Yes, it's definitely a tough situation, but my point is that it's no tougher than any other major when it comes to general degrees. Having access to more specialised niches can only ever help, never hinder.

At the end of the day the fact that there is too much supply just means one has to make sure he has good honours at the very least....a fact that holds true in any field nowadays.
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