Is Your Degree Worth It?

July 15, 2007     Posted in Reality

girls holding moneyI know I’m worth it, but is my degree? College is numbingly expensive — I’m not even a senior and I’m already 50k in the hole. All this just so I can (probably) land a meager entry – level job when I graduate with my liberal arts degree. Yeah, you need to give a little to get a little, but I’ve lost count over how many times I’ve woken up in the middle of the night, drenched in sweat, worrying about my loans.

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Well, good news! Apparently, the value of a liberal arts degree is up. The average grad’s salary rounds to about $33,000 a year. That’s almost enough to live in New York City…

The situation is better for those with more mechanical minds (and degrees). Chemical engineering majors earn about $60,000 out of school, and computer science majors aren’t far behind.

And, of course, there’s my brother the petroleum engineer who, at 23, is earning more in a year than I will probably earn in my life. There may be blood in oil, but there is also money. Lots of money.

I rue the day I end up living in his basement.

Check out the list of the most lucrative college degrees here… while I consider changing my major.

One Comment on "Is Your Degree Worth It?"
  1. writey says:
    Mon, 29th Jun 20096:32 pm 

    I would have made over twice as much if I had just gotten a job straight out of high school. But no, I had to get a worthless engineering degree and wade around in low paying engineering jobs, dead-end work, unemployment and underemployment.

    Don't go to engineering school!

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