These 10 College Degrees May Have The Best Job Prospects

Source: Fast Company, Melissa Locker
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Not to sound like your parents—because, honestly, follow your passion!—but if you major in theology, theater arts, or Renaissance art history, you may find it harder to get a job after graduation. And if it’s hard to find a job after graduation, you may have to go on a game show to pay off your student debt.

But getting such a job requires a little planning. The 2017 end-of-year report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that people with a bachelor’s degree earned an average of $1,193 per week, compared to $761 those with just a high school diploma.

However, certain majors were more likely to result in jobs and CareerCast put them together into a helpful list:

Nursing: Demand for nurses ranks among the highest for all careers, according to CareerCast.

Accounting: Employment rates historically linger over 90% for accounting majors

Computer Science: Get a job at the next Twitter, Google, Facebook

Information Systems and Information Security: See above.

Marketing and marketing research: According to CareerCast, people who graduate with this degree have employment rates of around 94%.

Finance: Please start a hedge fund!

Business management: See above.

Mechanical engineering: Get ahead of the coming robot revolution.

Mathematics: If you’re actually good at math and maybe even enjoy it, you owe it to the rest of the world to work in this field.

Chemistry: See above.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90226178/these-10-college-degrees-may-have-the-best-job-prospects