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And The Highest Paid College Majors Are...
Zero Hedge ^ | 04/29/2013 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 04/29/2013 12:49:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Presented with little comment but perhaps it is time to rethink that $100,000 loan and the extended MBA program...

 

 

Via WSJ



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Society
KEYWORDS: college; major
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1 posted on 04/29/2013 12:49:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

How can this be? No one wants to be an engineer anymore, because the pay is so weak.


2 posted on 04/29/2013 12:50:49 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: SeekAndFind

Where are the philosophy majors?


4 posted on 04/29/2013 12:51:34 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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I hope these are starting salaries.


5 posted on 04/29/2013 12:52:42 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

You can find them in your local Starbucks.


6 posted on 04/29/2013 12:53:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Womyns’ Studies?


7 posted on 04/29/2013 12:53:14 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: SeekAndFind

When I look at those figures, it makes me sick...to realize that even the lowest-ranking, dumbest congress critter makes nearly twice as the best paying position on the chart.


8 posted on 04/29/2013 12:54:05 PM PDT by DemforBush (Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia!)
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To: central_va

60+ grand not good enough for you?


9 posted on 04/29/2013 12:54:37 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

Like to see History, Literature and Woman Studies Majors.


10 posted on 04/29/2013 12:55:11 PM PDT by AU72
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To: SeekAndFind

I can just hear it from the Leftards:

“Big Petroleum Engineer”


11 posted on 04/29/2013 12:55:25 PM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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•Petroleum Engineering: $93,500

Go oilfield!

•Electrical/Electronics and Communications Engineering: $63,400

Go *Tronics*!

12 posted on 04/29/2013 12:56:27 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Where is “puppetry”?


13 posted on 04/29/2013 12:56:48 PM PDT by albie (s)
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To: SeekAndFind
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14 posted on 04/29/2013 12:57:09 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: AU72

What’s the poverty line, nowadays? LOL


15 posted on 04/29/2013 12:57:15 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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“I hope these are starting salaries.”

They are. I have two sons with engineering degrees and their starting salaries were in line with these, given when they started.

What is surprising is that they do not list Civil Engineering. A lot of C.E. work goes to support petroleum infrastructure, and even absent that, a BSCE will get you a starting salary higher than that of BSAE.


16 posted on 04/29/2013 12:57:48 PM PDT by No Truce With Kings (Ten years on FreeRepublic and counting.)
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To: 1rudeboy

and all the jobs are in India and China...


17 posted on 04/29/2013 12:58:28 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: bigbob

Uh, yeah . . . whatever.


18 posted on 04/29/2013 12:59:11 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: albie

“Where is “puppetry”?”

In the White House correspondent’s pool.

(Or the tool pool as it is affectionately known.)


19 posted on 04/29/2013 12:59:27 PM PDT by No Truce With Kings (Ten years on FreeRepublic and counting.)
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To: SeekAndFind

When I was selecting a major in college (1960s), I expressed an interest in petroleum engineering. My adviser told me in no uncertain terms that it was a dead-end job with no openings. Someone would have to die for there to be an opening.

From the chart, I suppose there were a lot of old engineers who died or I picked the wrong field.


20 posted on 04/29/2013 12:59:36 PM PDT by DeFault User
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