Thursday, May 14, 2015

The Top-Paying College Majors

If you have a child graduating from college this spring, you may be wondering how they're going to pay back all those student loans. Here's the latest list of the most lucrative majors in terms of starting salary,  based on data collected by PayScale.com from 1,000 U.S. universities:

1.  Petroleum Engineering Starting salary: $102,300
2.  Chemical Engineering Starting salary: $69,600
3.  Computer Engineering Starting salary: $67,300
4.  Nuclear Engineering Starting salary: $67,000
5.  Computer Science &  Engineering Starting salary: $66,700
6.  Electrical & Computer Engineering Starting salary: $66,500
7.  Electrical Engineering Starting salary: $65,900
8.  Aerospace Engineering Starting salary: $64,700
9.  Electronics & Communications Engineering Starting salary: $64,100
10.  Materials Science & Engineering Starting salary: $64,000

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