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On According to "Survey": College Majors and their Resulting Salaries

Well, this chart doesn't tell us all that much.

1. Self reported data? Not necessarily accurate.
2. I glanced at the methodology. Confidence interval is 5-7%. So N is prolly pretty low. I don't think it says how many people actually participated.
3. Professional degrees aren't included. I was a history major, and I make $142K as a writer. But I have an MBA, which seems to open a lot of doors at companies.

Seems to me the worst thing you can do is major in a specialized, quasivocational discipline such as dance therapy, multimedia production, etc. College is too valuable an opportunity to waste on careerist bullshit. You've got your whole miserable life for that.

Posted on January 8, 2010 at 6:18 pm 0