Accounting is the most lucrative non-science/engineering degree

[Asher]

GePap, for the last time, I'm a Computer Scientist.

I deal with theory as well as the applied.

I'm not a Computer Engineer.

They are different.

And I'm disappointed, but not surprised, that you think a study on starting salaries for bachelor's degrees should be a much more comprehensive study.

It's a simple study. I'm sorry that it's not what you want it to be, but if that's the case then kindly STFU and ignore it.

Or are you mad because the salary figures are hitting a bit too close to home?

[GePap]

Originally posted by Kidicious
IMO a degree in poli sci is in actuality just like a degree in liberal arts. Either degree would qualify you for a job that you got with one or the other.

If you are looking at a degree in terms of specific jobs, probably. Not if you look at a degree in terms of long term career choices. I would say Pol Sci people are probably more likely to go intop government jobs and diplomatic jobs than individuals in the liberal arts, thought just as likely probaby to go into Law.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by GePap
If you are looking at a degree in terms of specific jobs, probably. Not if you look at a degree in terms of long term career choices. I would say Pol Sci people are probably more likely to go intop government jobs and diplomatic jobs than individuals in the liberal arts, thought just as likely probaby to go into Law.

Yeah. Probably more likely, but from my experience with a degree in econ the education requirements are for an econ or equivilent degree. I'm sure that a person with any degree could apply for those jobs and get them if they had good general skills.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Asher
GePap, for the last time, I'm a Computer Scientist.

I deal with theory as well as the applied.

I'm not a Computer Engineer.

They are different.

And I'm disappointed, but not surprised, that you think a study on starting salaries for bachelor's degrees should be a much more comprehensive study.

It's a simple study. I'm sorry that it's not what you want it to be, but if that's the case then kindly STFU and ignore it.

Or are you mad because the salary figures are hitting a bit too close to home?

If I wanted to make real money, I would be trying to enter entertainment, not engineering, for god's sake.

Having gone to a math and science HS, taken some technical classes, and taking science courses at my university, I know full well such a job would bore me to death.

As for the other point, a survey of starting salary offers for people who have decided to start looking for work after the degree they have aquired is not particularly interesting really, especially the difference between applied degrees and ay theoretical degrees. NO kidding someone who has studied in school the basics they need to start doing a specific job will get offered more than someone with a far less practical degree. Schocking, NO?

[Asher]

Originally posted by GePap


If I wanted to make real money, I would be trying to enter entertainment, not engineering, for god's sake.

I think the average engineer makes more than the average entertainer.

And no offense, but you're no more entertaining than watching paint dry.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Kidicious


Yeah. Probably more likely, but from my experience with a degree in econ the education requirements are for an econ or equivilent degree. I'm sure that a person with any degree could apply for those jobs and get them if they had good general skills.

That is very true- to a certain extent most jobs out there don't really call for any particualr degree, given that what you are doing is so far from resembling what you do in the university that the correlation is low.

The only jobs in whcih this is not true are more technical professions, like engineering, where you need a certain amount of practice and theory before you even start working to be able to do the job.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Asher

I think the average engineer makes more than the average entertainer.

And "the average" is not where anyone with ambition plans to be. What entertainers can make is much higher than what engineers can make, though enigneers have a much higher bottom than entertainers.

And no offense, but you're no more entertaining than watching paint dry.

Who said talent was needed? William Hung rpobably made more money in the last 2 years than you.

[Az]

Should've gone Chem. Engineering... damn engineers getting all the money.

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by GePap
That is very true- to a certain extent most jobs out there don't really call for any particualr degree, given that what you are doing is so far from resembling what you do in the university that the correlation is low.

The only jobs in whcih this is not true are more technical professions, like engineering, where you need a certain amount of practice and theory before you even start working to be able to do the job.

BA degrees are fine if you don't have college loans, but I think if you have to pay back your college loans you are going to need the higher salary and a better chance of landing a job.

[Japher]

Originally posted by Az
Should've gone Chem. Engineering... damn engineers getting all the money.

and the ladies

mwahahaha

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Japher


and the ladies

mwahahaha

Yeah sure. Let's see a picture of a cute Chemical Engineer.

[Az]

Let's see a picture of a cute Chemical Engineer.

Let us not ( although truth be told, the scientists aren't really in a better shape, except, perhaps, a certain amount of females of the biological persuasion )

[pchang]

I went to school with 3 very hot looking Chemical Engineers. That is not much out of a class of 300+ of them, but it was more than the other engineering majors (%-wise).

[Kidlicious]

There's a lot of hot Accounting majors here at my school.

[Japher]

There was on hot ChemE that I remember, because I work with her now. She has a BA in economics and is a project manager makin 150k/year... I think stacking on degrees is the way to go