I don’t think the degree matters as much as him self figuring out what he wants to do. For some people, they are lucky what they studied in college is what they ended up doing. For a lot of people that wasn’t the case…

I graduated with a EE degree thinking I would work on communication systems and digital signal processing and almost no practical software experience…But after 2 years out of college, my entire software career was based on 2 UCSD extension classes I took in C++ on Qualcomm’s dime, and a lot of books I read myself…That and moving to the bay area for some time to work with the jobs that I wanted to do at companies were willing to take a chance on a new kid with very little prior experience…

Unfortunately, there are some careers these days that ridiculously require more advanced studies/degrees, for the sake of advanced degrees.. For example, it use to be you could be a physical therapist with a bachelors. But my understanding is those days are long gone…