<p>It really matters what you major in today--and I expect it gets even worse over time.</p>
<p>This study was “new”?!</p>
<p>Well, maybe to some people who cling to the old belief that major in what you want and you’ll be fine because it worked for me 30 years ago. Plus this study did not use Payscale info.</p>
<p>subscribing.
I’d like to follow this discussion.</p>
<p>I don’t think any of this is truly “news”, but it is nice that someone has taken the time to formally analyse the data, and thus can formally explain the criteria used for the study.</p>
<p>Not sure there is really any more than that. I looked at the report and it’s really just a set of percentage results. No info is given as to whether the results are statistically significant between any different majors except if data sets are too small.</p>
<p>The top three were:</p>
<ol>
<li>Petroleum engineering ($120,000)</li>
<li>Pharmacy pharmaceutical sciences and administration ($105,000)</li>
<li>Mathematics and computer science ($98,000)</li>
</ol>