Topic: Highest Paid College Majors

[Libertas]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-29/and-highest-paid-college-majors-are

Nice to see science and engineering up there...but I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that if they look at the backgrounds there are more non-natives in those pursuits...our wayward youth still favoring junk degrees...

The comments are a hoot, the escort angle being the lockerroom favorite...

[ToddF]

In my America, God blesses the people who find more and more oil.

 

[RickZ]

To be honest, the low end degree, Finance, has tremendous potential to outpace the other degrees over time if one becomes a CPA and/or earns a Masters in Tax.

I really want to know the starting salaries for those with Wymyns Ethnic Gender Studies degrees.  What's minimum wage work out to for a year?

[Weisshaupt]

Nice to see science and engineering up there...but I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that if they look at the backgrounds there are more non-natives in those pursuits...

I can vouch for that statement 20 years ago. It can only have gotten worse since.  All of those salaries are twice the going rate from 20 years ago as well. . . converted to real terms, most of those disciplines are drawing at least an  additional $10K worth of earning power in 1993 dollars.  I can only assume that is because demand is up. I do know that my company is still taking a long time to find and hire others. That is good. It might sting a bit more when I go Galt.

[Libertas]

To be honest, the low end degree, Finance, has tremendous potential to outpace the other degrees over time if one becomes a CPA and/or earns a Masters in Tax.

I really want to know the starting salaries for those with Wymyns Ethnic Gender Studies degrees.  What's minimum wage work out to for a year?

Oh, you mean escorts...lesbian escorts, of course?!   

[Libertas]

Nice to see science and engineering up there...but I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that if they look at the backgrounds there are more non-natives in those pursuits...

I can vouch for that statement 20 years ago. It can only have gotten worse since.  All of those salaries are twice the going rate from 20 years ago as well. . . converted to real terms, most of those disciplines are drawing at least an  additional $10K worth of earning power in 1993 dollars.  I can only assume that is because demand is up. I do know that my company is still taking a long time to find and hire others. That is good. It might sting a bit more when I go Galt.

Agreed.  And the more the crunch comes, the more painful all the Galt's are going to be.  So be it.