What Degrees Are The Most Valuable (employment, extension, average, unemployment)
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Define value? Do you mean which degrees can earn you the most money? Which degrees offer the most fulfillment? Which degrees are the safest i.e. the most likely to get you a full time job? If you are talking strictly monetary value do you mean at the entry level or at the top of the profession or the average? How much weight do you place on job satisfaction? How much weight do you place on likely hood of landing at a top company? Which school are you talking about transferring too, i.e. an Computer engineering degree from Cal tech is much different than an Electrical engineering degree from U. of Phoenix?
I ask these question to prove a point. Only you can decide what is valuable for you. if you want an answer to a specific question, I'm sure some people here could help you but value is subjective and our views will differ greatly from yours.
More importantly how much work are you willing to put in? Someone without a degree can start a company and make millions or even billions. Someone with a degree can work at Starbucks. I've heard it said that with an Engineering degree and the willingness to move anywhere in the country the unemployment rate is near 0.
I'd go with Electrical Engineering. The therapies (SLP, OT, PT) are flexible careers, have great pay, and different environments (school, clinic, nursing facility, hospital, etc.):
Providing that one has good work ethics, I think willingness to move anywhere in the country the unemployment rate is near 0 regardless of what degree one has.
So why don't you find out what you really want to do or good at?
Right out of college, graduates in humanities and social science made, on average, $26,271 in 2010 and 2011, a bit more than those in science and mathematics but less than those in engineering and in professional and pre-professional fields, according to the report. But at their peak earning ages, 56 to 60, humanities and social-science majors earned $66,185, putting them some $2,000 ahead of professional and pre-professional majors in the same age bracket.
In today's USA economy? Im thinking about majoring in either Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering after I transfer from a community college.
I think that's a good move if you have the aptitude for it. After becoming a physician, that's probably the next best career area. The barrier to entry is high because mathematical aptitude is required.
I don't think you can go wrong with an accounting degree/ finance BS and CPA or CIA, they have served me well 8 years out im around 100k/yr in bflo ny.
I think one shouldn't even bother with degrees these days unless they are particularly intelligent and driven and go for a degree that will land them a highly paying job. Instead, I think it's better to avoid student loans and go with a trade. College life these days is a joke anyway.
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