Why You Should Go Into Mormon Studies

According to this article if you get a degree in Religious Studies (of which Mormon Studies is a subset) you can look forward to the following:

• You might get really lucky and make $32,000 dollars a year; of course you are just as likely to earn $23,000 dollars a year (that's below the poverty level for a family of four).


• 35% of graduates will be employed in jobs that they did not even need a college degree for.


• 58% of graduates will be employed in low wage service jobs (waiting tables, janitors, maids, cashiers, etc.; on the bright side, those are honorable professions).


• It is a little unclear but it looks like only 7% of Religious Studies majors find employment in the field. You could be that one in fourteen who actually makes it (comparatively) big.


• You will be competing with over 54,000 people for that job.


• A Religious Studies major is more likely to find employment than someone in Mormon Studies.


• The faceless person who sets your insurance premiums will likely start out at at least double your salary. 

Good luck!