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  • Which one of these majors has the highest earning potential in today’s job market?

    05/31/2024 4:06:49 PM PDT · by grundle · 13 replies
    Twitter ^ | May 31, 2024 | Dr. Jebra Faushay @JebraFaushay
    Which one of these majors has the highest earning potential in today’s job market?
  • The Majors that Pay and the Degrees that Don’t for Graduates

    11/25/2019 7:23:21 AM PST · by karpov · 66 replies
    James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | November 25, 2019 | Preston Cooper
    he College Scorecard, a Department of Education initiative that publishes data on student debt and earnings after graduation for thousands of schools, just got a major update. Previously, the Scorecard’s major shortcoming was that it only reported data at the institution level—so we could see how much a typical graduate from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill earns, but not how much an engineering major earns relative to an education major. Since the payoff of a college education varies wildly by field of study, the usefulness of this dataset to students was limited. No longer. Last Wednesday, the Department unveiled...
  • 22 college majors with the highest starting salaries

    07/29/2015 8:33:17 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 49 replies
    Business Insider ^ | 07/29/2015 | Jacqueline Smith
    Salary potential shouldn't be the sole thing that attracts you to a major in college — things like passion, interest, and aptitude should also be considered. But it's still nice to know which degrees pay off the fastest. (And we can't blame you for being drawn to those.) PayScale, the creator of the world's largest compensation database, recently looked at the starting pay for millions of professionals and sorted the results by college major. Here are the 22 majors with the highest starting salaries: 22. Business and Information Technology Median starting pay: $56,900 Median mid-career pay: $99,100 % change from...
  • People With These College Majors Get The Biggest Pay Raises

    12/03/2014 11:35:32 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 8 replies
    Business Insider ^ | 12/03/2014 | JACQUELYN SMITH
    When deciding what to study in college, it's important to consider the earning and growth potential for jobs associated with each major. To help you figure that out, Payscale, the creator of the world's largest compensation database with more than 40 million salary profiles, looked at the difference between starting salary (less than five years of experience) and mid-career pay (10 or more years of experience) by college major to determine the 13 majors with the largest salary growth. 13. Business & Information Technology (IT) Common jobs: Information Technology (IT) Manager, Systems Analyst, Systems Administrator Starting median pay: $56,900 Mid-career...
  • College Graduates Awakened Rudely

    06/06/2014 9:56:52 AM PDT · by Academiadotorg · 13 replies
    Campus Report ^ | June 3, 2014 | Malcolm A. Kline
    It’s never pretty watching college graduates facing the cold, cruel world of the job market after being trained by people who have steadfastly avoided such a bracing encounter for most of their careers. We can see this exercise played out on one of our local campuses—George Washington University. “While GW has poured millions of dollars into improving career services, the percentage of students employed within six months of graduation has hovered at about 63 percent over the past three years, according to a survey released last month,” Allison Kowalski reported in The GW Hatchet on May 12, 2014. The efforts...
  • These Are The College Majors With The Smartest Students

    09/26/2013 7:46:59 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 36 replies
    Business Insider ^ | 09/26/2013 | Gus Lubin
    College students who major in physical sciences tend to be smarter than those who major in psychology, judging from the 2013 SAT Report on College & Career Readiness from the College Board. The report includes data on SAT scores by intended major for the college-bound class of 2013. We've taken the liberty of ranking majors based on these scores, which are the best commonly available proxy for intelligence.
  • Prelaw Is No Prep for the LSAT

    09/01/2009 12:43:02 PM PDT · by stan_sipple · 30 replies · 1,751+ views
    The Volokh Conspiracy ^ | 9-1-2009 | Jonathan Adler
    Using 1994-1995 and 2002-2003 data, Nieswiadomy (1998, 2006) found that economics majors scored well on the LSAT. These results are frequently posted on university web sites by Economics and other departments. This note, which updates the prior studies using current 2007-2008 data for the 2008-2009 class of students entering law school, finds that Economics majors still perform at or near the top of all majors taking the test. Economics majors (LSAT score of 157.4) are tied for first (with Philosophy) of the 12 largest disciplines (those with more than 1,900 students entering law school). Economics is tied for second (with...
  • Top 10 College Majors

    02/17/2006 8:23:37 AM PST · by .cnI redruM · 283 replies · 4,550+ views
    MSN Encarta ^ | 17 Feb 2006 | Article provided by The Princeton Review
    If you're currently pondering what to settle on as your major--or even if you're just curious what tomorrow's job applicants are majoring in today--here's a top 10 list for you. Not that this should sway you. In fact, the popularity of majors has little to do with actual demand for related fields in the workplace. Nonetheless, here we've included the ten most popular majors. 1) Psychology.....snip.... 2) English. ......snip.... 3) Mathematics. ..... If courses in Abstract Algebra, Complex Variables, History of Math, Number Theory, and Vector Analysis appeal to you, you and your amazing brain will feel right at home....