The Top 10 Most Lucrative college degrees of 2006

[Diesel07 0]

http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/13/pf/college...aries/index.htm

 

Mines not on there

[bigmarc27 24]

Economics.

 

ETA: If Marketing is on there, the entire thing is flawed. I have a few friends with Marketing degrees that are still really searching over 2 years after we graduated.

[George Carlin 1]

I make more than everyone of those and I didn't spend a day in college.

[D'ohmer Simpson 0]

I make more than everyone of those and I didn't spend a day in college.

Male porn fluffers make that much nowadays?

[fricker66 91]

I make more than everyone of those and I didn't spend a day in college.

 

You must be at the glory hole 24/7.

[Bill E. 666]

Economics.

 

ETA: If Marketing is on there, the entire thing is flawed. I have a few friends with Marketing degrees that are still really searching over 2 years after we graduated.

 

When I went to PSU, my major was Accounting, but I took a lot of Econ courses as electives. I wanted to get into the Money and Banking class but you had to be an Econ major or minor to get in because it filled up so quickly, so I named econ as a minor.

 

When it came time to graduate I was in no hurry to get a job so I went an extra semester and came out with dual Accounting / Econ B.S. degrees. Back then it was a joke because the only thing an Econ degree was good for in the real world was going back to school so you could teach Econ. Now it is one of the highest paying degrees, and I am in Info Tech.

[spork in the road 2]

I make more than everyone of those and I didn't spend a day in college.

 

 

Did you make that much in your first job? Those salaries are for people who just graduated, not for people who have a few years experience.

[Guest stevejohnson]

I noticed "Internet Troll/Stalker" wasn't on the list....... Maybe next year Sho Nuff!

[brinett9 0]

Fock, I'm #1.

[bob_probert_2000 1]

Economics.

 

ETA: If Marketing is on there, the entire thing is flawed. I have a few friends with Marketing degrees that are still really searching over 2 years after we graduated.

Marketing includes sales.

[CantTouchThis 23]

Cool, my sister out of college moved to NJ with her now husband, and in a couple months, she found a job that started out at about 50 grand, but she is now on pace to make about 80 grand. Her major was in the Buisness admin. area, so she is making twice what the average graduate makes with her major i guess.

[paradoxical 1]

Fock, I'm #1.

me too

[George Carlin 1]

Did you make that much in your first job? Those salaries are for people who just graduated, not for people who have a few years experience.

 

of course not, my 1st job was in 1996 making 30k (no college)

[parrot 789]

I didn't spend a day in college.

NO WAY!

[George Carlin 1]

NO WAY!

 

Ok, I lied. I spent many days in college, in dorms.

[Riddlen 1]

me too

#3

[Birdseed 1]

NO WAY!

 

[jerryskids 5,204]

Fock, I'm #1.

And I'm #2.

 

The difference is, I have a job.

[brinett9 0]

And I'm #2.

 

The difference is, I have a job.

Well, I do too. For another month and a half.

 

Then I get six months salary for walking out the door.

[Sho Nuff 719]

I noticed "Internet Troll/Stalker" wasn't on the list....... Maybe next year Sho Nuff!

 

Im the stalker...yet here you are posting about me...after starting a thread basically aimed at me...the irony is quite amusing.

 

Oh...and itsatipthat Accounting.....

 

HTH

[SmartassBoiler 0]

Computer Science

[TD Ryan2 314]

Not for nothing, but of course engineers make the most right out of college. They have a concrete and defined skill right away. Their starting salary is often higher, but their ceiling is often lower (i.e. Engineer level I - $40k, through Engineer level IV - $90k).

Unless an engineer makes the leap to a director or executive level position, his claims as "highest paid" will be short lived.

An auto mechanic could come out of tech shool and make $40k to start. Where you start doesn't really prove anything; it's where you end up.

 

The real question should be what did the country's top earners major in when they were in school?

You know that list is gonna' be filled with doctors, lawyers, and corporate executives with varying degrees in english, history, poli-sci, biology, and business.

[Riddlen 1]

Not for nothing, but of course engineers make the most right out of college. They have a concrete and defined skill right away. Their starting salary is often higher, but their ceiling is often lower (i.e. Engineer level I - $40k, through Engineer level IV - $90k).

Unless an engineer makes the leap to a director or executive level position, his claims as "highest paid" will be short lived.

An auto mechanic could come out of tech shool and make $40k to start. Where you start doesn't really prove anything; it's where you end up.

 

The real question should be what did the country's top earners major in when they were in school?

You know that list is gonna' be filled with doctors, lawyers, and corporate executives with varying degrees in english, history, poli-sci, biology, and business.

so yer a salesman eh...

[Toro 1]

Computer Science

 

CIS

 

(Computer Science Light - All the Programming, Half the Math)

[SigEp316 0]

yesssssssssssssss.

 

 

also I make about 8 times what mine states....

[jerryskids 5,204]

so yer a salesman eh...

Got a problem with salespeople?

[SmartassBoiler 0]

CIS

 

(Computer Science Light - All the Programming, Half the Math)

 

You had less work / more party time than me in college.

 

I still did OK.

[zen 0]

YEA! LIBERAL ARTS! WOOHOO!

 

Sitting in a focking cubicle editing copy about Britany Spears' saggin gut for 30K a year! GO LIBERAL ARTS!!

[jerryskids 5,204]

CIS

 

(Computer Science Light - All the Programming, Half the Math)

That explains why your MIL handles all of your finances.

[bno70_1 0]

Engineering sucks Donkey balls. That's why it pays decent. All us engineers decided that we shot too low and should have been doctors or something. If you're gonna hate your job, you might as well break 100k.

[jerryskids 5,204]

Engineering sucks Donkey balls. That's why it pays decent. All us engineers decided that we shot too low and should have been doctors or something. If you're gonna hate your job, you might as break 100k.

Or we move into engineering sales and make real money.

[bno70_1 0]

Or we move into engineering sales and make real money.

 

Ya, but sales people suck.

[jerryskids 5,204]

Ya, but sales people suck.

I'll take ignorant generalizations for $1000, Alex.

[Guest sweatness_34]

Engn'r's dumber than a us sales people. Bank, money yo we make. Count THE cash.

[BRANDON ROSS 0]

When I went to PSU, my major was Accounting, but I took a lot of Econ courses as electives. I wanted to get into the Money and Banking class but you had to be an Econ major or minor to get in because it filled up so quickly, so I named econ as a minor.

 

When it came time to graduate I was in no hurry to get a job so I went an extra semester and came out with dual Accounting / Econ B.S. degrees. Back then it was a joke because the only thing an Econ degree was good for in the real world was going back to school so you could teach Econ. Now it is one of the highest paying degrees, and I am in Info Tech.

 

 

Money and Banking was one of my favorite classes in college.

[redtodd 7]

I didn't realize that Engineering students were getting this much right out of school.

 

My degree (Plastics Engineering) isn't up there, but it should be comparable to Chemical Engineering.

[George Carlin 1]

My best friend is a sales person, he's the sales manager of a small 8 person company and he makes 125k+.

 

Real smart kid, no college, I hate him.

[Sho Nuff 719]

Engn'r's dumber than a us sales people. Bank, money yo we make. Count THE cash.

 

Irony....catch it....