New college degrees designed to job-proof graduates
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New college degrees designed to job-proof graduates

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 1, 20268 min
  • Business & money

What do influencing, AI and health sciences have in common? They’re all degree programs colleges have launched in the last few years to attract students looking for a new career path. On today's show, how colleges are rethinking degrees for a changing job market. Fact checking by Leyla Doss. Your Next Listen — Community colleges are kind of underrated Connect with The Indicator — Sign up for The Indicator’s weekly newsletter! — Buy the Planet Money book — Find our socials, YouTube and more! — For sponsor-free episodes, subscribe to NPR+ Support public med...

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NPR. This is the Indicator from Planet Money. I'm Ricky Mulvey. And I'm Weyland Wong. Case Brown is a senior at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He wants to be a doctor, maybe an anesthesiologist, or maybe an orthopedic surgeon because he used to be a baseball player.

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I would love to work with athletes as well, but at the end of the day, it's open to whatever I fall in love with at med school. Case-entered UT San Antonio is a biology major, but he recently switched majors to something called Health Sciences. It's a brand new degree that the university launched this year.

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The idea is to make students more competitive in professional programs for medicine, dentistry, and other healthcare careers. UT San Antonio isn't the only college that's updating its course catalog for a new generation of students.

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