<p>Most</a> Lucrative College Majors - Forbes.com</p>
<p>I simply do not believe that CS majors are the most lucrative jobs...</p>
<p>We do. Lawyers and doctors might make more but they have a lot of $$ spent in their respective professional schools.</p>
<p>They don't believe CS majors are the most lucrative either; they put them at #4.</p>
<p>You need to consider availability of jobs also.</p>
<p>Well, do note that:
1. Berkeley's graduation salary reports show that CS is the highest paying major right out of college for Cal.
2. The article is addressing all colleges. More selective colleges may have liberal arts majors that earns more than the average.</p>
<p>What's funny is that EECS majors on average make less. But that's actually sort of misleading- EECS has two different overall foci: EE and CS. Generally EE people make less than the CS people but the EECS CS (as opposed to L&S CS) surely make more.</p>
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<p>I think you mean computer engineering, not CS. They are similar, but not the same. </p>
<p>Secondly, you have to separate 'majors' from 'jobs'. The most lucrative 'jobs' right out of undergrad (barring such rarities as professional sports or entertainment) are in finance: investment banking, hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, etc. These jobs are available to any major (but it is also true that only a small minority of candidates will get offers).</p>
<p>Econ at #2. Very Nice!</p>
<p>Interesting that some of the majors in the thread "worthless majors" are listed here as most lucrative......</p>
<p>Poke around at this link a bit and check out the reported average salaries for different Cal grads. It looks like CS is the highest on this list too.</p>
<p>"The most lucrative 'jobs' right out of undergrad (barring such rarities as professional sports or entertainment) are in finance: investment banking, hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, etc."</p>
<p>how will these jobs hold during the on-going economy woes in the U.S.?</p>
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how will these jobs hold during the on-going economy woes in the U.S.?
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<p>Well, clearly they're not doing well now, but frankly, they'll still pay better than almost any other job you could get right out of school. The pay delta just won't be as large as it usually is. </p>
<p>But I doubt that that should matter to anybody who hasn't chosen a major, which is who I thought this thread was directed to. If you still haven't chosen a major, that means that you have years before you graduate, and by that time the economy will almost certainly have recovered. </p>
<p>As an example, I remember during the 2001 tech crash when the computer science and EE majors weren't exactly looking too good. Yet look at them now. These things always go in cycles. You just have to hope for the luck of not graduating into the teeth of a recession.</p>
<p>sakky, which undergrad business course would you say offers the best exposure/material in preparation for these types of careers? i have one last humanities course to fulfill.</p>
<p>for the record, i'm an upper division ieor student</p>
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sakky, which undergrad business course would you say offers the best exposure/material in preparation for these types of careers?
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<p>Well, I don't think that any course really prepares you well for those kinds of careers. After all, it doesn't matter how much you know if you can't even get an offer, and most undergrads who want to get into the industry won't get an offer. </p>
<p>If I had to name one undergrad course, it would probably be BA 137 - Special Topics in Finance. Of course, it depends on which 'special topic' happens to be taught in that particular session. Or, if you can handle it, BA 239S would be really good. </p>
<p>The other option is to somehow wheedle your way into a Haas MBA course, i.e. something in the MBA 237 series or maybe MBA 236. However, that's pretty darn hard to do if you're an undergrad.</p>
<p>that's the flyer for the 137 course. as an ieor student, i want to keep my options open between choosing a finance career or an engineering career as i don't have a good idea which path to take at this point..</p>
<p>Actually, this is the more recent flyer for 137</p>
<p>COURSE</a> NUMBER:</p>
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i want to keep my options open between choosing a finance career or an engineering career as i don't have a good idea which path to take at this point..
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<p>I suspect you know this already, but it bears repeating that simply taking a course doesn't automatically grant you any additional options, as you can take all of the coursework for a particular field and get top grades and still not get the job offer in that field, and in some cases, get beaten out for the job by somebody who didn't take even a single course in that topic. Heck, I've seen it happen myself: I knew a guy who majored in MCB and who had never took a single course in business or economics or even math beyond the 16 series, yet still was able to land a bunch of Wall Street Ibanking offers, beating out other Berkeley students, including Haas students, who had taken significant business or economics coursework. What's even worse is that the guy turned down those Ibanking offers in favor and took a job in consulting instead because he didn't want to work Ibanking hours. But if you think about it, that's just adding insult to injury: here are all these other Berkeley students who spent time taking specific courses and otherwise preparing themselves to get an Ibanking offer and don't get one, and here's this guy who never bothered to do any relevant coursework and yet he's the one who gets the offers. </p>
<p>But it just goes to show that coursework really doesn't matter that much in terms of actually getting the job. Sure, it won't hurt you; in fact, it will probably even (slightly) help you, but it's hardly going to be a deciding factor. Ibanks hire plenty of people who have taken no relevant coursework.</p>
<p>Why did that guy get those Ibanking offers?</p>
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<p>MCB majors can't take the 16 series to satisfy the lower division math requirement.</p>
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MCB majors can't take the 16 series to satisfy the lower division math requirement.
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<p>They could in the old days. The new Math 1 requirement was instituted only recently. {Personally, I think that was a bad move because, frankly, most biology students don't really need to know that much about calculus, but hey, nobody asked me.}</p>
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Why did that guy get those Ibanking offers?
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<p>Well, nobody know for sure, including him. But my speculation is that he's a tall, confident, and charismatic guy who's very good at public speaking, and that's what Ibanks are really looking for.</p>
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The new Math 1 requirement was instituted only recently.
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<p>Out of curiosity, I poked around trying to find out when the change was implemented, and I came up with this, from a class of 2002 MCB student.</p>
<p>You do not need Math 1A for certain foci in MCB. Cell and neuro (AFAIK) allowed you to take Math 16, which is not nearly as painful.</p>
<p>Yahoo</a>! Answers - Weeder out courses at UC Berkeley?</p>