<p>The</a> 15 Most Valuable College Majors - Forbes</p>
<p>"At No. 1, biomedical engineering is the major that is most worth your tuition, time and effort. Biomedical engineers earn a median starting salary of $53,800, which grows an average of 82% to $97,800 by mid-career. Moreover, the BLS projects a whopping 61.7% growth of job opportunities in the fieldthe most of any other major on the list."</p>
<p>Stats as 15th seems kind of low.
I’ve heard there’s a large senior cohort of petroleum engineers set to retire, so I wonder if that’s been factored in.</p>
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<p>I dunno, if you look on Callisto, there are barely any jobs for Stats majors. For some reason, CS and Stats are grouped together in the same category on Callisto and firms who select that category are almost exclusively looking for CS not Stats majors. The few listings actually catering to Stats majors were also targeted at people with graduate degrees in Stats. At least that was the case last semester when I was looking for a job.</p>
<p>The only decent jobs for pure Stats majors are in the actuarial field and even then, most firms only look at candidates who have passed at least 1-2 actuarial exams. </p>
<p>If you look at <a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Statistics.stm[/url]”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Statistics.stm</a>, you’ll see that most job titles listed are actually in Finance/Business which suggests that most of these people are also Biz/Econ double majors.</p>
<p>Unless you go to a top-20 brand name school, what matters most to employers is your major,’ says Katie Bardaro, lead economist at compensation research firm PayScale."</p>
<p>Isn’t this rather applicable to us Bears?</p>
<p>^^That makes sense.</p>
<p>Everyone and their brother seems to be doing biomedical engineering. IMHO, it’s way too limiting for an undergraduate degree.</p>