What are the majors with the best job prospects for a university or college graduate? I know this changes in time with few exceptions (medicine etc.) but please list the majors with the most career opportunities that you know of at the moment. If possible, also add in job titles related to every major.
Physical Therapy, Nursing, Accounting, Software Engineering, Pharmacy, Dentistry, and Biomedical Engineering are projected to grow pretty significantly in the next three years. Someone can correct me if I’m way off base, but that’s what comes to mind.
Note that most of those will require education beyond an undergraduate degree for employment. Plan accordingly.
Pharmacy, Nursery and Dentistry are sort of a given, but I was surprised to see Accounting. Thanks @Qwerty568
^ there will always be taxes…
http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/majors-that-pay-you-back/bachelors
Top 25 highest-paying majors (by mid-career average salaries reported to Payscale) include:
engineering
physics
computer science
economics
government
mathematics
Occupational Jobs Outlook
http://www.bls.gov/ooh/
BLS has proven from time to time to be spectacularly wrong…
@Catria Would you mind listing some of the majors you know that have the most abundant job opportunities (in the case the BLS wrong)?
I’m afraid I don’t know which majors have the best job outlooks, but I do know this much: take BLS with a grain of salt.
Don’t just look at industry income. That says nothing about how many hours per week they work, or how expensive the city those people live in is. Manager income can skew it too.