Reuters – Chris Taylor
“With university tuition and student debt at record highs, many people wonder if it is worth it to go to college. But according to Georgetown University professor Anthony Carnevale, the truly important issue that will affect a student’s future is picking a major. While attending college will boost your earnings by roughly a million dollars over the average lifetime, your particular major is even more important, according to the new study “The Economic Value of College Majors,” compiled by Carnevale and his team at Georgetown’s Center on Education and the Workforce. In fact, the spread between the highest-earning and the lowest-earning major and is a whopping $3.4 million in lifetime wages.”(more)