Why is arts and humanities considered to be the least preferred option for students?

There is no least preference towards any course but then there is high preference and propaganda towards some top courses like medical, engineering, chartered accountancy and MBA. This drives majority and influxes the students into these branches. As we have seen the job prospects and overall opportunities across industries have been immense for above courses and so are the fat packages being rolled out which lures majority of students. This now creates an imbalance and supply demand ratio is disturbed. The supply is huge for above courses because of the huge demand, which creates shortage of students into Arts streams and lesser demand. This is plain Keynesian Economics what we can see and is the sole criteria why students less prefer arts and humanities as they have lesser competitive edge and all round development.

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Arts and humanities subjects are less opted by student because they feel insecure in these fields. They think in medical or engineering one can get job definitely after completing the course but they can't get job in these fields. Student are choosing medical and engineering in which there is a big hand of advertising market, many colleges for getting admissions take support of 100% placements and international selection. Another is parent’s acceptation of earning huge package after study and then students think this is possible only through engineering or medical. So earning huge salary package and parents acceptation is the cause to choose these fields. Now this has become a mindset of the society that if he or she is studying arts or humanities then of course the student is weak in science and this fear of society makes them choose engineering or medical.

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Hello, This is very interesting but existential question in our system of education. There is no need to disown it or ignore it. It's actually a fact. What causes it? Can it be changed? These and some more questions need urgent answers. Fundamentally, what goes in the mind of a student to select a particular subject? It simply is the prospect of earning money. Medicine and engineering were the two torch bearers in the past on this issue. But thoughtless explosion of engineering colleges and in turn fresh engineers caused a situation where in today almost 50% fresh engineering graduates do not get jobs. This made parents turn to commerce. Commerce has almost replaced engineering as a choice at number two. Thus we see that the remaining subject at third place is arts and humanities. Less potential for job is the main reason for students shunning this subject.

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