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Monday, April 18, 2005


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. . .




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