Posted
4/18/2005 05:33:00 PM
by Douglas
How strange. Last fall, CNN reported the top
in demand college degrees. What's even more amazing, the
link is still
up. Now CNN is telling me what the most lucrative college degrees are, right out of
college. Wouldn't you know it, there's some overlap between the two lists, as Engineering shows up
five times on this list! [I'm
still not counting computer engineering,
nor industrial engineering? They call it I.E., or
imaginary engineering for a reason)
Major | Starting Salary |
---|
Chemical engineering | $54,256 |
Electrical engineering | $52,009 |
Computer engineering | $51,496 |
Computer science | $51,292 |
Mechanical engineering | $51,046 |
Aerospace engineering | $50,701 |
Industrial engineering | $49,541 |
Accounting | $43,809 |
Information sciences | $43,732 |
Civil engineering | $43,462 |
Economics/finance | $42,802 |
Business administration | $39,448 |
Marketing | $37,832 |
Liberal arts | $30,337 |
But wow! There's obviously more of a demand for Chemical engineers than for Liberal Arts graduates. . .so why aren't we making more Chem Es? Is playing hackey sac and smoking weed that much more important?
And check out that crap-tacular table. . .you just know an engineer was involved with that. . .