Top 10 highest paying degrees of 2010

[PimpJuice]

With a CS degree name one job you can get out of school without additional training, we're talking a real, salaried job, not Walmart.

you don't know much do you

 

[Ronstang]

The thing is, solar, nuclear, petrolium, wind, geothermal, hamster wheel, and whatever other energy engineers you like to list will have to go out before EEs are in trouble. There are a lot of energy sources out there.

I know, I was just fucking with him.

 

[rasczak]

with salaries so close to what i make without a degree, is it really even worth it for me to pursue them? sheesh maybe i should just get my security certs and network certs ad by pass scholl altogether.

 

[Train]

Computer Science: $61,205

Starting? right out of college? in 2010?

roflma, ya effin right. Maybe in NYC or San Fran. Everywhere else in the nation a kid fresh out of college is lucky to get $40k and he better learn quick or his job wont last.

 

[TechBoyJK]

what about titty milk energy?

I'm going back to school to be a titty milk engineer. I'm good at locating titties.

 

[JS80]

Petroleum engineering seems like it would be a risky career though, too dependent on booms & busts. the boom times are great, the bust times...not so much.

That's why there's a premium attached to it. I bet not many people go into petroleum engineering for that reason.

 

[jman19]

Computer Science degrees are almost useless.

LOL @ you.

 

[lothar]

Where does biomedical engineering fall in this?
My neighbor did that major, but I have no idea what it entails.

Civil Engineering as always is at the bottom.

 

[KentState]

Starting? right out of college? in 2010?

roflma, ya effin right. Maybe in NYC or San Fran. Everywhere else in the nation a kid fresh out of college is lucky to get $40k and he better learn quick or his job wont last.

I'm paying my Jr DBA that much and he is 1 year out of college.

 

[thepd7]

Starting? right out of college? in 2010?

roflma, ya effin right. Maybe in NYC or San Fran. Everywhere else in the nation a kid fresh out of college is lucky to get $40k and he better learn quick or his job wont last.

My work hires almost all those majors at we all start around $57-58k, no one is getting $40k as far as I know. I do know a lot of people are getting lowballed at ~$50-52k though. This is all in Texas.

 

[Mike Gayner]

With a CS degree name one job you can get out of school without additional training, we're talking a real, salaried job, not Walmart.

Wow....are you retarded?

 

[BarneyFife]

Where does biomedical engineering fall in this?
My neighbor did that major, but I have no idea what it entails.

Civil Engineering as always is at the bottom.

Civil is big everywhere in the world except North America. I've never made less than 75k a year so you just need to find the right employer.

 

[KentState]

With a CS degree name one job you can get out of school without additional training, we're talking a real, salaried job, not Walmart.

They would be junior level positions but programmer, BI, DBA, and so on. My brother started as a software engineer back in 2004 making around $50k a year.

 

[hanoverphist]

Considering electricity is a derived energy source if your predictions of other energy sources running out are true you are just as fucked unless lightning shoots out of your ass.

because fossil fuel plants are the only way to make electricity? i think nuclear, hydro and solar are the wave of the future for electricity generation. hell, wind is pretty worthy as well in a lot of areas.

 

[Legendary]

They would be junior level positions but programmer, BI, DBA, and so on. My brother started as a software engineer back in 2004 making around $50k a year.

This.
I'm a BI DBA and I started as a SQL Dev @ 55+10.

 

[purbeast0]

They would be junior level positions but programmer, BI, DBA, and so on. My brother started as a software engineer back in 2004 making around $50k a year.

thats pretty much exactly what i started with in 2004 with a CS degree as well.

 

[Deeko]

With a CS degree name one job you can get out of school without additional training, we're talking a real, salaried job, not Walmart.

Computer Science degrees are almost useless.

Ummm....software engineer, software developer, programmer, software development engineer....

Granted those are different terms for the same job, but that's pretty much what those people do for a living. Its amusing that you call it "almost useless" - do you consider making more money with a 4 year degree right out of college than all but 3 other majors to be useless? This report clearly doesn't.

 

[Gibsons]

Hmm thats strange. My home ec major isn't on that list. Neither is my friend's black studies major.

Or my niece's women's studies major. Figured corps would be flooding her with offers to.. uh.. study women.

 

[Farang]

I think I picked the wrong major.

Political science. . . ~$18k last year out of college, $28k or so estimated for 2010.

 

[Deeko]

Starting? right out of college? in 2010?

roflma, ya effin right. Maybe in NYC or San Fran. Everywhere else in the nation a kid fresh out of college is lucky to get $40k and he better learn quick or his job wont last.

Some companies are significantly higher for a starting position. Lucky to get 40k as a programmer/software engineer? I sure hope not.

My roommate in college wasn't even a CS major, he was IST - he got a junior software development job out of college that paid about $50k, and he barely knew how to program. Not in NYC, San Fran, or Seattle, either. In southern New Jersey.

 

[villageidiot111]

Just because the starting salary is high doesn't mean it's easy to find a job in that field. Talk to any EE major who is graduating this spring, most of them cannot find work.

 

[Cheeseplug]

Or my niece's women's studies major. Figured corps would be flooding her with offers to.. uh.. study women.

Yeah, because colleges are trade schools, right?

 

[polarmystery]

Where does biomedical engineering fall in this?
My neighbor did that major, but I have no idea what it entails.

Civil Engineering as always is at the bottom.

Your neighbor will be a rich man. BME has the highest job growth rate in the entire US. That's what I'm going to do eventually with my EE degree after I go back to school.

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos027.htm

Biomedical engineers are expected to have employment growth of 72 percent over the projections decade, much faster than the average for all occupations. The aging of the population and a growing focus on health issues will drive demand for better medical devices and equipment designed by biomedical engineers. Along with the demand for more sophisticated medical equipment and procedures, an increased concern for cost-effectiveness will boost demand for biomedical engineers, particularly in pharmaceutical manufacturing and related industries. Because of the growing interest in this field, the number of degrees granted in biomedical engineering has increased greatly. Many biomedical engineers, particularly those employed in research laboratories, need a graduate degree.

 

[rcpratt]

It'd be nice if they'd publish more than the top 10. I'm sure Nuclear Engineering is close, but oh well. At least I beat all but one of those.

 

[Train]

Some companies are significantly higher for a starting position. Lucky to get 40k as a programmer/software engineer? I sure hope not.

My roommate in college wasn't even a CS major, he was IST - he got a junior software development job out of college that paid about $50k, and he barely knew how to program. Not in NYC, San Fran, or Seattle, either. In southern New Jersey.

My view must be warped by staying near Detroit for so long.

But hell even elitist Ann Arbor is lowballing the hell out of coders these days.