Friday, April 21st, 2006

Most Lucrative College Degrees

Ever wonder which college majors/degrees can expect the highest salaries once they graduate? CNN/Money reports that, not surprisingly, the highest starting salaries are for those with engineering and computer science degrees:

Average starting salaries by college degree

The article notes, “Liberal arts majors, which includes social science majors such as history and English, finished last with a starting salary of $30,828, but experienced an increase of 6.1 percent compared to last year.”

Not exactly earth-shattering news, but interesting nonetheless. One thing I find interesting however, is that these kinds of engineering and computer science jobs that apparently pay the highest starting salaries out of college are also the types of jobs that most likely to get outsourced. An interesting contradiction, no?


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