[Feldkurat_Katz]

According to joboutlook.com, the top salaries for a student graduating with a 4 year degree go to the engineering students - as your chart shows. 5 out of the top 10 jobs in demand are also engineering jobs (ie., those students getting multiple job offers upon graduation). So, there is plenty of financial motivation for students to go into engineering or the hard sciences.

But there is even more financial motivation to go into medicine or law.

In addition, starting salaries do not tell the whole story. There are other factors - such as: how many times willy you have to change jobs? how likely are you to be subject to age discrimination? Again, law and medicine, as well as many other fields are better in that respect.

[Serenissima Venezia]

But there is even more financial motivation to go into medicine or law.

I was comparing those graduating with 4 year degrees - an MD or a law degree would take an additional 4 or more years, so of course they will pay more. I don't know what you are arguing, but it seems to have taken an illogical turn and isn't related to this thread.

[1rudeboy]

Medicine? Who in their right mind is going into medicine as this nation rushes headlong into health care socialism? It makes no sense to claim that folks are discouraged from engineering study because wages might fall without making the same observation concerning medical study.