Georgetown University Center for Education and the Workforce took a look at unemployment rates and college degrees and came up with a list of degrees that have a good chance of getting you a job and list that have a bad chance.
Source: Georgetown University Center for Education and the Workforce
Choose wisely when deciding which kind of spreadsheet jockey you’ll be, accounting and finance have very different prospects.
Information systems used to be a hot degree, but the tech industry has plenty of people who know so little about everything that they can’t do anything in depth. You’ll need to know how to code to get a job.
But if you want a lifetime of available jobs, long hours and upset customers then nursing is where it’s at. There is an ever growing nursing shortage but be prepared to get a masters degree if you want to hang out with the cool nurses.
The full report can be found here (PDF). The summary is available here.
Looking at earnings by employment field gives a correlation between those degrees and what you might earn.
Source: Georgetown University Center for Education and the Workforce
What we can all learn from this is that chemistry has low unemployment and engineering has high pay, so chemical engineering is where it’s at. Have fun in organic chemistry classes, that stuff is hard.
To see how these numbers stacked up against last year check out our coverage of the 2012 report.
