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Need a key for the two colored bars, please.

Without even clicking on the article I can assess that the grey is starting salary and the blue is after some amount of time. I would guess 10 to 15 years. I'm going to guess you didn't major in any of those majors listed above... ;)

^ Owned

haha,

The "purplish" bar (shorter) is the median starting salary. The "bluish" bar (longer) is the median mid-career salary.

However, my opinion a person should go to college to LEARN, you should study what you like and what you are passionate about. The JOB world ebbs and flows, I don't recommend chasing the money.

meredith: 1st bar median starting salary, 2nd mid-career median salary.

Geee... I'm just LOVIN the last line there.. seein as Im one year away from ELEM EDU DEGREE!!! AAKKKKK...... I know.. I know...

Go into sales, work with people, love what you do, first year 65k, second year 95k, third year 110k! Hooked on closing business it worked for me!

if i were involved in sales, i would get a technical degree and do pre-sales(i.e. pre-sales engineer, technical pre-sales, pre-sales consultant). you will then have a broader skillset with sales and technical background.

i think if ur just a regular sales dude, from my observation of people that got into sales, they may have a hot year here and there, but their consistency is pretty volatile. so if ur gonna brag about how much u made for first/second/year/etc in sales - john doe, lets here back from you at the midoint of your career. you sound like one of these chop-shop real estate bubble, quick buck, fly by night, grand opening/grand closing kinda dudes.

how can someone completely assess another persons character and life from one sentence.do you have to go to college to learn how to do that?

popularity does ebb and flow. when I got a Econ degree in the 70's the pay was similar to liberal arts degree. I doubt however it will flow to the other direction any time soon. making 135k but not in economics, though the background helps

Not really, there is a lot of computer engineers that are unemployed. I doubt if this numbers are true. The healthcare related should be listed as one of the best paying and secure job.

No joke ! I'm surprised Domestic engineering isn't on the list! who knows what colleges will think of next to reel students in nowadays.

Major in English. Your options will open wide if you communicate well in your own language.

I want to respond to John Doe and to allah hu,
I have had a 25 year sales/marketing career from a liberal arts, double major of Psych//soc degree and earned CONSISTENTLY for 25+ years a $150 to $200 thousand dollar a year income. Allah, sales is VERY predicable if you treat it like a true profession as you would any professional degree. You just have to be self directed.

You can have flexiblity & have rewards for meeting challenging goals and solving complex problems, and get paid for your personal contributions that you don't as a straight staff employee. A 'sales dude' is no different than an 'engineering dude' -

The type of sales (pre-sales???) you refer to as a staff inside sales job doesn't give you that same status, income or results. If you believe in your own abilities, and have the confidence to bet on it, then it is a very lucrative, professional choice as a career. You are trained technically if you are in serious sales as a sales consultant/solution sales person. So don't downgrade it anymore than you would a lackey job as a tech is not a trained engineer.

I hope that anyone who is contemplating a professional sales career has as rewarding an experience as I did. Get a mentor you respect to talk with you about what business direction you should take.

Thanks for this list of best engg colleges. Nice post. Gurukul Vidyapeeth is dedicated to impart to its students not only professionalism but also high level of moral and social values. The mission of the Gurukul Vidyapeeth is to provide intellectually well developed, spritually oriented, morally upright and socially concerned citizens for India.

If you had clicked on payscale to get full list you would see what the colored bars mean :-)

I went to school on a scholarship and majored in Aesthetic Studies (dance and playwriting mostly) at UC Santa Cruz where they had no grades. Fun times!

Then I made a boatload of money working in the computer industry part-time while doing my art the other part. The last five years self-employed getting $65 an hour. That's ~$135K a year if I wanted to work full time which I never wanted to. I mean, how much money does one need to live?

My time spent with the geeks was fun because I loved learning and there was always something to learn in that world.

Because I bought my first house in the Bay Area 25 years ago I have a super low mortgage that's almost paid off and worth 4xs what I bought it for.

With this recent downturn in the computer industry, for the first time in my work life, I'm doing my art full time, living off my tenured professor hubby writing a novel and absolutely loving that. Several top NYC agents have asked for it so I expect it will sell though that's not why I wrote it.

I know it's a granola-headed thing to say these days, but I still maintain that one should invest in oneself, in what you are passionate about, and the money will follow, maybe not right away...but eventually.

What about degrees in basketball & football? They appear to be fairly high-paying.

great.......nothing resembling real learning, just over priced
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Hey, where is my profession? public school teacher...lol
(starts at 25K tops out at 26K, wise chioce.......jeeze, I won't get a raise until I get SS.)

how can someone completely assess another persons character and life from one sentence.do you have to go to college to learn how to do that?
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A psyche/psychic major ???

@chemdegree: Yeah, I know what you're saying. My boyfriend is getting his degree online in Basketballogy from Hoops University.

Major in English. Your options will open wide if you communicate well in your own language. good comment i agreed with you

Kind of funny that teachers across the country are being blamed for ridiculously high salaries and the destruction of the economy, but this article actually says that if you go to school for elementary education "you're screwed". Just watched an episode of the Middle too where they made a crack that a teacher must need extra money since she can't make that much teaching. Seems we all know deep down that teachers make minimal money with a college degree, but we're more than happy to listen to and agree with politicians cutting them down at the knees.

As a former high school teacher who spent the first two years of that career sleeping on the floor of a studio for lack of cash to buy a bed (and that was with a Masters), I thank you for the last comment.

Very good post !!!
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