Here Are The Top 25 Majors If You’re Trying To Stack Paper
There are three reasons to go to college: party, girls, and get paid when you graduate. I’ve already touched on the best schools where you can rage your face off, and the best schools to find the hottest women. However, what I can’t lock down for y’all is what are the best majors for getting the big bucks.
Luckily, Business Insider compiled the top 25 majors who make the most money coming out of college. For all you kids looking to declare your major soon, this list is for you. Spoiler alert: lots and lots of engineering is involved.
From Business Insider
25. Management Information Systems – Median starting salary: $56,300
24. Mechanical Engineering Technology – Median starting salary: $56,600
23. Nursing – Median starting salary: $56,900
22. Business and Information Technology – Median starting salary: $56,900
21. Architectural Engineering – Median starting salary: $57,000
20. Physics – Median starting salary: $57,200
19. Electrical Engineering Technology – Median starting salary: $58,900
18. Biomedical Engineering – Median starting salary: $59,600
17. Business Information Systems – Median starting salary: $59,800
16. Acturarial Mathematics – Median starting salary: $60,800
15. Computer Science – Median starting salary: $61,600
14. Software Engineering – Median starting salary: $61,700
13. Industrial Engineering – Median starting salary: $61,900
12. Mechanical Engineering – Median starting salary: $62,100
11. Computer Science and Mathematics – Median starting salary: 63,200
10. Materials Science and Engineering – Median starting salary: $64,000
9. Electronics and Communications Engineering – Median starting salary: $64,100
8. Aerospace Engineering – Median starting salary: $64,700
7. Electrical Engineering – Median starting salary: $65,900
6. Electrical and Computer Engineering – Median starting salary: $66,500
5. Computer Science and Engineering – Median starting salary: $66,700
4. Nuclear Engineering – Median starting salary: $67,000
3. Computer Engineering – Median starting salary: $67,300
2. Chemical Engineering – Median starting salary: $69,600
1. Petroleum Engineering – Median starting salary: $102,300
No surprises here: Getting into the oil business leads to much greater wealth.
Step 1. Get a petroleum engineering degree.
Step 2. ???
Step 3. Profit..
[via Business Insider]
Oil is laying off people right now so number 1 and 2 are making way less money ( in my case roughly half of what I could have made 2 years ago)
11 years ago at 12:35 pmWhy would chemical engineers be making less money? They’re making an absolute killing with Big Pharma.
11 years ago at 1:16 pmA lot (probably 1/3) of chemical engineers work in oil and gas. Pharma does pay well but not as well as oil, and does not have the upward career mobility that oil does
11 years ago at 1:44 pmYou can’t just be a ChE in the energy field with energy experience and just say, “oh hey I wanna work for a drug company now.” If you do happen to land a job (which you won’t) you’d still start at the bottom and make way less than you’re accustomed to. That being said, you still have the necessary skills to start synthesizing meth, mdma, and lsd so you’re set regardless
11 years ago at 3:09 pmNot true. We fired half the maintenance goons
11 years ago at 2:12 pmEveryone is trying to be a petro engineer tho. Starting salary will be going down when everyone’s going for it…
11 years ago at 12:54 pmJeez, just staying a drug dealer might be more profitable than my major.
11 years ago at 12:58 pmAnd what is the price of oil right now?
Business Insider is a worthless liberal website. Like a bush league Huffington Post…
11 years ago at 1:01 pmCalling it a lesser version of Huffington Post would make you wrong, sir. Huffington Post is the syphillis of the Internet. Business Insider is more of a Forbes.
11 years ago at 12:48 pmAlot of Accounting and Finance Degrees will earn way more then most of those jobs once all of the designations are competed like the CPA and FINRA tests and have a way higher ceiling.
11 years ago at 1:10 pmTo bad half of those jobs will be turned over to software in the next five years.
11 years ago at 2:41 pmActive managers will still make tons of money, passive management will be taken over by software i.e. What Vanguard does.
11 years ago at 3:43 pmYou’re really, really misinformed.
11 years ago at 3:52 pmProper financial analysis, cash flow analysis, liquidity obligations: these things can’t be determined with software. All these things are emotional. People buy with emotion and justify with logic. Until a computer can ask a question, see that the person is lying or uncomfortable giving a truthful answer, and get the real answer- finance won’t change.
11 years ago at 1:33 pmThis can’t be right.. Where’s communications?
11 years ago at 1:26 pmI am a Petroleum Engineer and I can personally tell you that $102k is absolutely not the median starting salary anymore. In fact, anyone who entered the industry recently and is making that amount is probably unemployed at this point or taking a huge salary reduction.
11 years ago at 1:27 pmAlso anyone whose industry is related to yours is getting screwed too. All I want for Christmas is for oil to be back at $100 a barrel.
11 years ago at 12:07 amDamn my major in Transgender Dog studied won’t get me anywhere. Fuck.
11 years ago at 1:34 pmMedian salary 10 year after graduation is a much more important metric. That will also include all the folks who went on to professional schools. Long term > short term.
I’m surprised chemical engineering is not on the list. Some of the brightest guys were taking it when I was in college.
11 years ago at 2:20 pmI’m going to go out on a limb and say you weren’t one of those bright guys.
11 years ago at 2:35 pmNo. I did premed instead.
11 years ago at 3:05 pmEmphasis on “pre”, I suppose. Need to sharpen up on the reading and analytical skills.
11 years ago at 8:04 pmTake it easy, kid. I did medschol, residency, fellowship and now I’m rolling in dough. Good luck to you, and respect those who’ve been there and done it.
11 years ago at 8:07 amDumbass he’s saying that because chemical engineering was #2
11 years ago at 12:29 pmThis is a comprehensive economic analysis of every major, not some bloggers guess at what the top 25 majors are https://cew.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/The-Economic-Value-of-College-Majors-Full-Report-Web.compressed.pdf
11 years ago at 2:29 pm