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Best paying college majors
Topic Started: Jul 26 2011, 07:53 PM (239 Views)
Axtremus
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Article and slide show:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/26/the-best-paying-majors-pa_n_909472.html

Of the top 13 listed, all are engineering/science oriented, except Economics that came in at #12.

Medicine and Law are not listed ... probably because those are graduate degrees (i.e., beyond mere "college majors").
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pianojerome
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I'm a little disappointed that music history is not on that list.
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sue
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Best paying, perhaps, but they don't mention competition rates for said jobs. Pretty brutal, at least where I am.
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LWpianistin
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One of my best friends in England has just graduated with a degree in petroleum engineering. She said it will take a year to see if she got a job with any of the many companies she has to apply to. Crazy! If she doesn't get a job this time around, she has to wait another year and do it all over again!
And how are you today?
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jon-nyc
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I've read that, in general, petroleum engineers are in demand and that many are older and close to retirement. I suspect your friend won't have a difficult time of it, unless she is limiting her search to a particular geography.
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Mikhailoh
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Part of teh problem with petroleum engineering is you have to go where that industry is. Often relatively undesirable locations.
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Renauda
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Alberta is by no means an undesirable location.
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jon-nyc
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True, but if you work for Schlumberger or Halliburton or the like you can spend a lot of time in some real hell holes.
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Mikhailoh
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Renauda
Jul 27 2011, 05:55 AM
Alberta is by no means an undesirable location.
I don't know. The residents and all that.....
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Renauda
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jon-nyc
Jul 27 2011, 06:00 AM
True, but if you work for Schlumberger or Halliburton or the like you can spend a lot of time in some real hell holes.
Not to mention Precision, Nabors and other drilling contractors
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kenny
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Which majors result in people who are happiest?
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Chris Aher
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Mikhailoh
Jul 27 2011, 06:19 AM
Renauda
Jul 27 2011, 05:55 AM
Alberta is by no means an undesirable location.
I don't know. The residents and all that.....
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Dobro players & runners? What's not to like? :)
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Chris
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Jolly
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Renauda
Jul 27 2011, 05:55 AM
Alberta is by no means an undesirable location.
Well, the deer hunting is pretty good....
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LWpianistin
Jul 27 2011, 05:39 AM
One of my best friends in England has just graduated with a degree in petroleum engineering. She said it will take a year to see if she got a job with any of the many companies she has to apply to. Crazy! If she doesn't get a job this time around, she has to wait another year and do it all over again!
There's at least thirty PE jobs posted up in Houston.
The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros
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