Forbes – Jill Castellano
“With total college debt at $1.2 trillion and climbing, it’s easy to assume every college-bound student is flocking to majors known for their lucrative salaries. For example, nine of the top 10 highest paying majors are engineering disciplines—petroleum engineering is No. 1 with an annual salary of $136,000, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. The top bachelor’s degrees in demand by employers are finance, accounting and computer science…Not everyone’s desperately forcing themselves into a finance or computer science degree in the hopes of a steady job post-graduation, though…“A wide range of majors can lead someone into a wide range of fields and any number of things in a career,” says Daniel Shapero, LinkedIn’s careers product leader.”(more)