None of this should be shocking:
EDsmart used data for the 2020-21 school year from the Department of Education to rank degree majors in California by median earnings three years after graduation for those with bachelor's degrees. Some degree programs listed are only offered at one college in the state. When a major is offered at multiple colleges, the analysis lists the median earnings between them.
Most lucrative college majors in California:
#1. Mathematics and Computer Science ($166,134)
#2. Mechanical Engineering Related Technologies/Technicians ($102,821)
#3. Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology ($98,074)
#4. Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing ($94,750)
#5. Construction Engineering ($91,338)Least lucrative college majors in California:
#1. Teaching English or French as a Second or Foreign Language ($17,472)
#2. Missions/Missionary Studies and Missiology ($19,275)
#3. Alternative and Complementary Medicine and Medical Systems ($23,563)
#4. Dance ($24,119)
#5. Wildlife and Wildlands Science and Management ($25,317)
Notice anything, uh, interesting about the first list?
You can add Aggrieved Victims Studies to the latter list.
The interesting thing I noticed about the first list is that electrical and chemical engineering, both perennial powerhouses for top salaries, seem to be missing.
ReplyDeleteThe list was California-specific, maybe that had something to do with it.
ReplyDeleteWe have two L.A. natives in the family who are both college students at UWa-Seattle. One will graduate next year with a masters in Comp Sci ($$$), the other with a BA in English (000).
ReplyDeleteOy. We tried to talk him out of it, but he believes fiction is incredibly important!
My niece is a drug dealer. She graduated with a BS in (if memory services) biology on a Saturday, then started the Dillard University pharmacology program on Monday (All of one day off). She graduated that in four years (been out for four as I recall). As she said, "Uncle Mike, I'll graduate with 150K in student loan debt, a Doctorate in Pharmacology, and walk into a 6 figure salary, and many of these companies have loan repayment programs."
ReplyDeleteShe choose very well.