{"id":362,"date":"2011-07-27T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/physics-news\/13-best-paying-college-majors\/"},"modified":"2011-07-27T10:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T14:35:00","slug":"13-best-paying-college-majors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/physics-news\/13-best-paying-college-majors\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Best Paying College Majors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"girl_graduate_waving_md_clr\"<\/a> The Huffington Post<\/a> recently published an article on the 13 best-paying college majors<\/a>.  Note that 12 of the 13 require a strong physics and science background, and all 13 require strong math skills.  Thanks to Louis Carusone of Eastridge High School<\/a> for sharing this article and link.  You can find the entire article online at the Huffington Post<\/a>.  I have summarized their data below:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Major<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Median Starting Pay<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Mid-Career Median Pay<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Petroleum Engineering<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$97,900<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$155,000<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Chemical Engineering<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$64,500<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$109,000<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Electrical Engineering<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$61,300<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$103,000<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Materials Science \/ Eng<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$60,400<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$103,000<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Aerospace Engineering<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$60,700<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$102,000<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Computer Engineering<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$61,800<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$101,000<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Physics<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$49,800<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$101,000<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Applied Mathematics<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$52,600<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$98,600<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Computer Science<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$56,600<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$97,900<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Nuclear Engineering<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$65,100<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$97,800<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Biomedical Engineering<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$53,800<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$97,800<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Economics<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$47,300<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$94,700<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

Mechanical Engineering<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$58,400<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

$94,500<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Huffington Post recently published an article on the 13 best-paying college majors.  Note that 12 of the 13 require a strong physics and science background, and all 13 require strong math skills.  Thanks to Louis Carusone of Eastridge High Continue reading 13 Best Paying College Majors<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[243,239,240,241,238,26,237,242],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics-news","tag-career","tag-college-degree","tag-engineering","tag-mathematics","tag-pay","tag-physics-2","tag-salary","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aplusphysics.com\/flux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}