The further out you are from college graduation, the less your success is attributable to the field in which you majored, and the more your success is attributable to a set of abilities imparted by any top-tier bachelor’s-level education: critical thinking, problem solving, rhetoric, the ability to work in teams, leadership, conflict resolution. The sciences and engineering certainly have no monopoly on imparting these skills.

via Major in Computer Science – Room for Debate – NYTimes.com.