Most Lucrative College Degrees

[ChiOCat]

Definately good news for MSU! I am suprised that Mechanical Engineers starting salary has actually dropped. It's never made sense to me, they can go to Cargill, take the same job as a Chem E and it takes them 5 years to make up the salary difference. For the same job, which is really just "engineer."

http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/13/pf/coll ... tm?cnn=yes

[SonomaCat]

I'm guessing the Accounting and Finance salary increases are almost exclusively due to the Sarbanes Oxley compliance work. The firms are hiring anyone who is even remotely qualified to do that crap. The downside is, the compliance isn't always particuarly value-added, and costs companies tons of cash.

Thanks, Enron, you bastages! And thank you Congress, for passing poorly thought-out feel-good legislation to distract us from the fact that you were all buddies with Ken Lay.

[RyeCat]

I work in a bank and Sarbanes-Oxley has created more headaches for the banking industry than I ever thought possible. Of course they want to hire new grads for that stuff. Anybody who know anything about compliance and has experience wants to run when Sarbanes-Oxley is mentioned.

[Bleedinbluengold]

Definately good news for MSU! I am suprised that Mechanical Engineers starting salary has actually dropped. It's never made sense to me, they can go to Cargill, take the same job as a Chem E and it takes them 5 years to make up the salary difference. For the same job, which is really just "engineer."

http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/13/pf/coll ... tm?cnn=yes

Here's to ChE, but I think I'd go with EE or something similar next time around...or, maybe, pro sports!!!