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Worst-Paying College Degrees
Yahoo ^ | 10 May, 2010 | Charles Purdy

Posted on 05/10/2010 2:55:41 PM PDT by throwback

There's no denying the value of a college education: According to recent U.S. Census surveys, the median salary for college grads is more than $20,000 higher than that of people with only a high school diploma. And the unemployment rate for people with bachelor's degrees is almost half the rate for people without.

But some degrees are worth more than others, as PayScale.com shows in its 2010 report on the earning power of bachelor's degrees.

(Excerpt) Read more at hotjobs.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: highereducation; jobs; lowpay; topten
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To: throwback

My ex is a social worker with a bachelor’s. After 20 years she was making what I as making as a junior engineer. (50K) She has friends with Master’s and they all make 6 figures. Your niece will probably do just fine.


21 posted on 05/10/2010 3:13:33 PM PDT by LiberConservative
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To: cornfedcowboy

Median salary for a teacher in New Jersey is 75,000, not including benefits. The pension is quite generous too.


22 posted on 05/10/2010 3:14:09 PM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Yeah, but he’ll be able to debate the existence of the burger with his fellow flippers. I have a nephew that has a doctorate in Philosophy too. We don’t talk much. I stopped at a 200 level logic course, but I can fix my own lawn mower.


23 posted on 05/10/2010 3:14:24 PM PDT by throwback ( The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid)
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To: Billthedrill

LOL... Dude! Wait, what?


24 posted on 05/10/2010 3:14:32 PM PDT by laker_dad
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To: throwback
One of my kids is getting a BS in Para-Legal Studies...

She will get a job easy enough....probably pay 6 figures fairly fast.

The other went to a nice expensive school to be a "hair stylist" she will probably make more money than both my other kid and I both. Ha!!

The difference is she can make what she wants to make as a free lancer........

Crazy

25 posted on 05/10/2010 3:14:32 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: CFIIIMEIATP737

How about those two great degrees, Woman’s Studies and African American Studies?

They’re probably on the rolling on the ground laughing list.


26 posted on 05/10/2010 3:16:13 PM PDT by Kozy (Calling Al Gore)
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To: throwback

I don’t see Women’s Studies at the bottom of that list and shouldn’t it be? Also, I get a kick out of the teachers who get doctorates in education so they can play principal and get called “Dr” for the world’s easiest PhD.


27 posted on 05/10/2010 3:16:23 PM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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How about a PhD in Postmodern Transgender Perspectives?


28 posted on 05/10/2010 3:17:00 PM PDT by donaldo
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To: Kozy

I think studying women is wonderful. I’ve been doing it for almost fifty years and have found it very rewarding. Confusing at times, but rewarding.


29 posted on 05/10/2010 3:18:19 PM PDT by CFIIIMEIATP737
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To: SnakeDoctor

Many of them stayed in school for advanced degrees since the job market was so weak when they first graduated. It has not improved and now they have even more debt.


30 posted on 05/10/2010 3:18:58 PM PDT by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: throwback

The six most used words of a music major: “Would you like fries with that?”


31 posted on 05/10/2010 3:19:52 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Is Obama an Irish, Italian or Japanese name?)
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To: Osage Orange

Stepdaughter is stylist. She makes a killing, but she does have a natural talent. Now if she could only manage her money, she wouldn’t be borderline bankrupt.


32 posted on 05/10/2010 3:19:56 PM PDT by throwback ( The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid)
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To: CFIIIMEIATP737; throwback

He was conceived in Greely, Co. That should tell you a lot about my cousin and his wife!


33 posted on 05/10/2010 3:20:47 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
Didn't Patrick Swayze in Roadhouse have a PhD?


34 posted on 05/10/2010 3:21:43 PM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: throwback

This is a misleading article. None of the links take you to anything close to what the article title claims.


35 posted on 05/10/2010 3:21:59 PM PDT by savedbygrace (Rev 22:20 He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord)
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To: throwback

My son got an Anthropology Degree.

From Berkeley.

Works at a surf shop.


36 posted on 05/10/2010 3:24:01 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: secret garden
Power Plant Operator (cannot learn it in college, requires US Navy, Coast Guard or OJT) Starting at about $45,000, Mid-Career $80,000 (Average with overtime $100,000 +)
Who needs to go listen to a bunch of self-impressed Liberal Professors)
37 posted on 05/10/2010 3:24:21 PM PDT by Wooly
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To: I see my hands
As with any lib, I hope she is a miserable failure.

Nice.

I always like to wish ill on people I've never met. < /sarc>

"There are two types of people in the world; those who lump people into two groups, and those that don't."
38 posted on 05/10/2010 3:24:43 PM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth. (J.I. Packer)
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To: cornfedcowboy
I know too many folks that have ED degrees...that paid a lot of money for them...and hate the job...or are out of a job.

Even the luke warm moderate libs hate the job in the big urban areas.....but they know who supports them. The Unions and and local government...so they vote their way.

That said...I know some un-employed "teachers"...that won't move...and are mooching off of family...because they can, and they don't want to sacrifice.

39 posted on 05/10/2010 3:25:13 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: throwback
its 2010 report on the earning power of bachelor's degrees

False concept.

The degree earns zero.

Degree holders? That depends.

40 posted on 05/10/2010 3:26:12 PM PDT by Jim Noble
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