There is a growing problem in my country. Actually this problem is common in quite a few other countries. Last year when the class of seniors in my school was graduating I asked several of my senior friends what are they going to study in university and it turned out that they preferred majors in business and management and in the social sciences. But none of them wanted to study Math, Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy or Engineering for that matter.

The tendency of students to prefer social sciences is one that have been growing steadily for some time but what is more startling is the fact that even countries like the United States, which compared to my country are rich and quite big, report a steady decrease in the number of students who graduate university as physicists and engineers.

Unfortunately a problem stems out of the high interest in some fields and the low interest in other fields. As more people turn to business and social sciences and fewer and fewer to sciences and engineering the balance of the labour market is threatened. On one hand in the near future the number of available science professionals will not be enough to satisfy the needs of the market. On the other hand the overabundance of business administrators and PRs will create a surplus of graduates who will be unemployed.

We all know that the discoveries made by scientists and the engineering feats in different fields are essential for the human progress. Technology is based on scientific discoveries and on countless years of engineering. So, any problem with those fields can lead to a crisis in our progress.