stem majors

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/education/edlife/why-science-majors-change-their-mind-its-just-so-darn-hard.html

article about why many students fail to follow through with a science, engineering, or math major...simple answer is that it's pretty difficult, and students give up after a year or two...however, i think that has always been the case, and it is well known that you have weeder classes early on so that students who can't take the work or find out that they don't like it can switch majors before it is too late...the article also mentions about having x number of engineers and scientists by a certain year, but the problem isn't so much that the students aren't completing these majors...the problem is that many these students who get stem degrees are going into other fields like finance, because the money is better...if they are serious about getting more people interested in becoming engineers and scientists, then start paying them investment banker level salaries...i'm pretty sure that engineers and scientists have had a much greater positive impact on the advancement of the human race than financiers...example...einstein vs jp morgan...genius who figured out brownian motion, relativity, and photoelectric effect vs greedy robber baron...the other issue is that with most stem jobs, an undergraduate degree is usually not enough and need to get at least a masters