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...
Odd that nursing wasn’t on the list. The VA starts RNs at 58k, and its a 2 year program to boot. I read the source but didn’t see what the inclusion criteria were so maybe they’re covered under a separate heading.
The only trouble with studying engineering is you might end up having to spend your life as an engineer.
The oil industry is of course infamously cycle—so your professor has been proven both right and wrong at least three times since then.
Just emailed the link to my son who is studying for finals right now. His major, Petroleum/Natural Gas Engineering. This is the end of his freshman year. He is still up in air on his minor selection (Energy Engineering or Geology).
Other son (who graduated last year with a degree in Computer Science (Minor in Math) had a job right out of college working for an energy company (here in Marcellus Shale land).
Our family motto...”frack, baby, frack.”
My parents said start in the mail room of a fortune 500 and work your way up through management while at the same time letting them pay for your college.
They are funny people.
I don’t see gay and lesbian studies, women’s studies, gender studies, sociology, art. This must be an oversight.
This must be an oversight.”
actual LOL
I don’t see gay and lesbian studies”
By the way, I think the preferred terminology is actually Queer Studies. You are obviously not up to date.
Uhh....a little bit of reading comprehension. These are starting salaries. For brand new graduates. 22 year olds. You’re a public school grad I take it?
They look good for starting salaries. My wife was a computer science grad and her first job paid about $40K.
Actually I have Comp Sci degree. Plenty of money in computers, just depends on where you want to live. If there is anyone out there that needs to hire someone with 25+ years experience for 100k+ in Wyoming, let me know. I'll be on the next plane for an interview.
We didn’t have PCs, google or internet. We had slide rules, mainframes (complete with card decks of fortran) and CRC manuals. Nothing was at your fingertips, and if you didn’t have the concept AND the data down pat, you were SOL. I wish I was in engineering school these days!
OTOH, I doubled in petro and CS, so when the collapse of exploration happened at the end of the embargo, I still had programming to fall back on, and never looked back. We hire java programmers out of college in the $60’s, with bennies. Dunno about the oil patch these days though...
The trouble with a psychology degree is that Foot Locker isn’t hiring.
*cyclical*
You should rank in the upper one-third of your high school class and have strong ACT or SAT scores. We do not require a writing test for admission, but we will accept the SAT with writing or the ACT with or without the optional writing test. We do not have a preference on the SAT or ACT exam. We will use your highest composite score from either test, and we do NOT super score multiple tests
Average (unweighted) GPA 3.8/4.0
Average SAT (Critical Reading and Math) 1300
Average ACT Composite 29
Why do we need any engineers, we don’t make anything in America anymore / protectionist off
Come on, I agree the tools were worse but the knowledge base was SO much smaller then. 30 - 40 years ago an electrical engineer needed to know transistor theory and that was about it. Now look.
I have an Electrical Engineering degree if you have to know, and if you take a minute and adjust those starting salaries for inflation, engineers are treading water.
My daughter, the art major.
True, but EE has branched into all sorts of fields. Computer science no longer requires inate knowledge of and-gates and such, and the oil patch has new toys, but the basics are still the first three years, and largely the same. The engineering flub that took down the Tacoma Narrows bridge (oh, gosh, what happens when that resonance varb goes to infinity) are the same. I guess it’s up to the particular colleges to decide the curricula though, so we probably agree on some level :o)
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