Follow the money: what college students wish they had done differently (hint: fewer loans, less humanities). From the article:

A new survey of nearly 250,000 Americans with at least a bachelor’s degree by career and salary website PayScale found that two-thirds said that they had a major regret about their educational experience. The No. 1 regret: student loans, which about one in four grads say they regretted, according to PayScale….

Your college major can be a big source of regret too, PayScale found. It was the second most regretted thing about the college experience, with more than one in 10 people saying their chosen area of study was their biggest educational regret.

And the area of study that comes with the biggest side of regret: humanities. Indeed, more than one in five people who majored in humanities — which includes specific majors like English and history — say they regret that choice….

Why might those studying humanities wish they hadn’t? “This may have to do with the relatively low salaries seen by common professions of humanities majors,” the PayScale report revealed. Indeed, research from Georgetown University shows that people who study humanities and liberal arts tend to make significantly less than those who study other things like STEM or business….

The fact that so many people now regret their student loans, or regret their major that resulted in a low-paying job, means it’s often no longer enough to just pick a major you love, experts say. “A person should really ask themselves, ‘why am I going to school?’…”

For other posts on the costs of college, see here.

h/t Rob Townsend (@rbthisted)