Sunday, February 22, 2015

The best paying jobs for college graduates

The best paying jobs for college graduates - MarketWatch
The unemployment rate for recent college graduates varies wildly, depending on the bachelor’s degree, for those aged 22 to 26. It’s lowest for
  • agriculture and natural resources majors (4.5%),
  • physical science majors (5%) and
  • education majors (5.1%),
  • industrial arts, consumer services and recreation majors (5.4%), 
while it’s the highest for
  • architecture (10.3%),
  • social sciences (10.1%),
  • psychology and social work (9%),
  • law and public policy (8.6%),
  • humanities and liberal arts (8.4%), 
  • communication and journalism (8.2%),
according to a new report — “From Hard Times to Better Times” — by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. Interestingly, the unemployment rate for computers, statistics, and mathematics (8.3%) is only fractionally different than that for humanities and liberal arts (8.4%) and business (7%). 

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