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<p>Oh the irony.</p>
<p>I don’t believe this list. A lot of those are some weird majors (IE. not “Psychology” but “Clinical Psychology” or “Educational Psychology”) and if they’re counting everything that is a major at any school (which is what it appears they’re doing) then there shouldn’t be such a wide gap between #1 and #11. I’ve very confident that the data is all fake, this is purely for entertainment purposes.</p>
<p>Georgetown University does not do “entertainment” research with fake data. Please, you made yourself look silly.</p>
<p>The “entertainment” may be the writer’s misunderstanding or selective reporting of the data provided by the Georgetown Center on Education and the Workforce. Can’t tell for sure which publication was used by the author for his story, but there is some fascinating stuff on Georgetown’s site. For example, this link <a href=“http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/whatsitworth-select.pdf[/url]”>http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/whatsitworth-select.pdf</a> has a summary from a longer article (that crashed my computer when I tried to download it) that includes tables of race differences in salaries for different careers. Now that is something we should talk about. Very interesting/</p>
<p>And this article (again the summary, as the full reports won’t seem to load) also shows salaries by education, race, gender, etc. Supports the reports that there are indeed significant wage/salary differences by these variables <a href=“http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/collegepayoff-summary.pdf[/url]”>http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/collegepayoff-summary.pdf</a> These are two fascinating reports.</p>
<p>One problem with this list is some of the majors aren’t useful for employment; the field needs a higher degree and a license of sorts. It also doesn’t sort by number of students. It’s a fairly useless list.</p>
<p>Re: Georgetown study</p>
<p>While interesting, it did not seem to mention anything about either age or time since getting the degree, since that can have a significant effect on the average pay levels. Also, the careers of people who graduated a few decades ago may be secure and lucrative, while the same field has worse opportunities for new graduates today. The opposite could also be true.</p>
<p>Worst slide show ever! (yes read it in comic book guy’s voice) Wouldn’t load, wouldn’t center so you could see the headline and the % under the picture. Just give me a list and get on with your worthless self!</p>
<p>^^ They do the slide shows to increase their ad load counts with each page ($$$) which is why they constantly come out with variants of the same info strung out on page after page. I get irritated at is as well and would rather just see a list on one page.</p>
<p>Saw this yesterday, and a truly terrible piece of reporting it is. See the difference between “American History” and “History” for ex., it’s just absurd. What do they mean by that? It’s clearly ridiculous. I was hoping parents generally wouldn’t notice or take it to heart, but of course CC’ers are ahead of the curve. :)</p>
<p>Son and daughter-in-law in one of the fields and doing super! I am reading less and less of this sort of drivel.</p>