COLLEGE EXPOSED: What Majors Are Most Popular, Highest Paying And Most Likely To Get You A Job

Petroleum engineer is the highest paying major, with median earnings of $120k

Counseling psychology is the lowest paying major, with a median of $29k

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Major in geological engineering, military tech, pharmacology or student counseling and you will definitely get a job

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Social psych majors have the highest unemployment rate at 16%

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Business administration is the most popular major in the United States

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Guidance counselor is the least popular major

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Early childhood development has the highest share of female students

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Naval architecture and marine engineering majors have the greatest share of male students

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Computer science is the most heavily Asian

Student counseling is the most heavily African American

Biological engineering is the most heavily Hispanic

Forestry is the whitest major

Among the ten most popular majors, computer science pays the most

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To be competitive in any of these fields you probably need a graduate degree -- in student counseling 91% of your colleagues will have one

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Only 9% of workers in commercial art and graphic design have graduate degrees

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Health and medical preparatory program majors earn a whopping 190% more with a graduate degree

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If you majored in atmospheric sciences and meteorology a graduate degree probably isn't worth it, with only a 1% pay boost

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Of course where you get your degree matters about as much as what it's in

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