Top 15 Highest Paying Fields for College Students to Consider was originally published on College Recruiter.
Are you wondering where to find top paying careers once you graduate?
A college degree can make quite a difference in students’ future salaries, especially if they choose a high-paying field.
“A college degree provides a strong earnings advantage to those willing to make the sacrifices needed to earn it,” say the authors of College Majors Handbook with Real Career Paths and Payoffs. “The average employed young person with a bachelor’s degree earned 81 percent more per year in 2011 than his or her counterpart with a high school diploma. The earnings premium of individuals with a college degree persists over their working lifetime.”
Authors Neeta P. Fogg, Ph.D., Paul E. Harrington, Ed.D., Thomas F. Harrington, Ph.D., and Laurence Shatkin, Ph.D., list the top 15 median annual earnings of full-time employed college graduates with bachelor’s degrees:
- Medical preparatory programs: $100,000
- Computer systems engineering: $85,000
- Pharmacy: $84,000
- Chemical engineering: $80,000
- Electrical and electronics engineering: $75,000
- Mechanical engineering: $75,000
- Aerospace, aeronautical, and astronautical engineering: $74,000
- Computer science: $73,400
- Industrial engineering: $73,000
- Physics and astronomy: $72,200
- Civil engineering: $70,000
- Electrical and electronics engineering technology: $65,000
- Economics: $63,300
- Financial management: $63,000
- Mechanical engineering technology: $63,000
Additional information can be found in College Majors Handbook with Real Career Paths and Payoffs. The book was published in July of 2012 and is available at major bookstores, Amazon.com and jist.com.
