Why Americans Fail at STEM Degrees – A Hard Truth About Engineering and Beyond

Okay, boys and girls, are you ready to learn why Americans suck at STEM degrees, specifically math, physics, and engineering? Even more specifically, engineering? Let’s break this down. You can relate this to math; you can relate this to physics.

Here’s the bona fide fact: the reason why the failure rate for engineering majors is so high—50%, 60%, even 70%—is because most Americans approach education and science with beliefs instead of discipline. They think they can whine, cry, and badger their way into success, but science doesn’t care about your feelings.

Electricity doesn’t care about your political beliefs. Calculus doesn’t care if you’re a liberal or a conservative. You either know what you’re doing, or you don’t. Yet so many students fail because they refuse to do the work. They fail miserably and then think they can buy their way through.

Why Engineering Demands Integrity

Here’s why engineering is different. Engineers hold people’s lives in their hands. If you mess up a calculation, it’s not just your grade that’s at risk—real people could die. This is why professors won’t let lazy, dishonest students graduate with an engineering degree.

Professors are scientists. They’ve devoted their lives to truth, and they won’t compromise their integrity to pass a student who cheats, pirates books, or refuses to put in the effort.

I’ve seen it countless times—students who argue, complain, and expect to be handed a degree just because they’ve paid