Engineering has one of the lowest depression rates.

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<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071014/ts_nm/depression_usa_dc_2?%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071014/ts_nm/depression_usa_dc_2?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>I'm not surprised. I'm sure this correlates to general happiness in the job as well.</p>

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<p>It doesn't appear that they controlled for gender in this study (?), and women suffer from depression at higher rates than men.</p>

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<p>True, it's just a straight average - but the male depression rate in Engineering is still quite low.</p>

<p><a href="http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k7/depression/occupation.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k7/depression/occupation.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>3.3% for engineering - compared to 2.3% in the sciences, 5.5% in finance & 4.5% in legal.</p>