Sunday, March 16, 2008

Lucrative college degrees

Lucrative college degrees, CNN article on NACE’s latest quarterly salary survey of recent college graduates.

Once again Engineering is very well represented with average starting salaries for:

  1. Chemical engineering: $56,335
  2. Computer engineering: $53,651
  3. Electrical engineering: $53,552
  4. Mechanical engineering: $51,732

The article lists no other degrees with an average above $50,000. Engineering education continues to pay off well.